Anonymous George writes "For the first time, a new GNOME desktop release is available for SuSE within a mere couple of weeks of it's source. ULB GNOME 2.8.0 "Precedent, baby!" based upon the GNOME Desktop release 2.8.0 is now available from http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms.

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Wow, it's what we waited for (I think). It's fast (runs smoothly on under 1GHz computers) and has a smaller memory footprint.
But now I see problems too: AbiWord cannot open RTF files (there's a crash there), mailto: links in epiphany doesn't open Evolution :-(, and lot of other simple yet nasty things.
The main good differences I found was the ease of browsing the filesystem (enhanced to the slower 2.6.2) and the graphical overall appearance which is definitely better now.
I used it for 1 hour now and I'm begining to let KDE apart (even 3.3 which is more bloated than 3.2.3). I love this new work. It's very promising for Linux/*nix's future. This is how you win on desktop market.


Yours,
Adrian Punga

Yes, this is where XP fails, it is big and bulky and does not run well on old hardware, hopefully the great work for KDE and GNOME continues and the developers keep things fast and efficient.