GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 2: ''Subotai''

The GNOME Desktop 2.4 Beta 2: "Subotai", is available for immediate download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors.

tar.gz: 124M total
tar.bz2: 91M total

Changelog

Dear Faithful GNOME Users
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You may remember the raucous excitement and pure joy of previous GNOME betareleases; wild claims of "ready for human consumption" and "won't crash...much". You may remember sheer delight at the opportunity to try new versionsof GNOME without a high probability of turning your desktop inside out,trashing your old settings or spending hours working why your fonts didn'twork. Ahh, days of yore.

Due to the huge success of our time-based release and 'always buildable,testable and usable from CVS' policies, this GNOME beta does not fulfill the'dangerous fruit' attraction of past beta releases. In fact, the 2.3 serieshas been a thoroughly stable and comfortable working environment for hackersand dedicated testers throughout its development.

You may well ask, "Hey, if this beta release isn't going to kill my harddisk, why should I care?" Sayamindu Dasgupta asked a similar question, andthis is what he found out:

http://www.ilug-cal.org/GNOME_2_4.html

GNOME 2.4 will be our most exciting release to date, with incredible newsoftware, cool new features throughout the desktop, great language support,slick performance improvements, and the breath of fresh air you've come toexpect from the desktop that "just works".

Please enjoy this beta, and help us find and straighten out the remainingfew kinks for our final GNOME 2.4.0 release in early September. For moreinfo, please see our 2.3 start page:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.3/

Thanks,

- The GNOME Release Team