diff --git a/en/gnome/news.xml b/en/gnome/news.xml index 186602bc16..cc5274144e 100644 --- a/en/gnome/news.xml +++ b/en/gnome/news.xml @@ -1,363 +1,380 @@ - $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/news.xml,v 1.20 2002/09/15 19:21:54 marcus Exp $ + $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/news.xml,v 1.21 2002/10/13 15:49:46 marcus Exp $ 2002 October + + 26 + + + GNOME 2.1.1 desktop available for FreeBSD + +

The GNOME 2.1.1 desktop, "Flux Capacitor" release, is available, + and ports have been made for those wanting to test this next + installment of the GNOME 2.2 development version. The ports + are available via anonymous CVS from MarcusCom. Checkout + the ``ports'' per the instructions at + + http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi. +

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+ 13 GNOME 2.1.0 desktop available for FreeBSD

The GNOME 2.1.0 desktop, "88MPH" release is available, and ports have been made for those wanting to test. The ports are available via CVS from MarcsuCom. A cvsweb interface is available from http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi. The module name is ``ports''. Instructions for checking out the ports is available at the cvsweb site.

September 15 GNOME 2.0.2 Final Released

GNOME 2.0.2 development API and desktop has been released today (just in time for 4.7-RELEASE)! The ports tree is in sync with 2.0.2, and i386 -stable packages are available from MarcusCom.

11 GNOME 2.0.2 RC1 Released

GNOME 2.0.2 Release Candidate 1, "The Considerable Duck", is now available. The ports tree is already in sync with this release, as is the package distribution at MarcusCom.

August 15 GNOME 2.0.1 Officially Released!

GNOME 2.0.1 was officially released today. More info can be found at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/. The ports collection is already in sync with 2.0.1, and 2.0.1 packages are available for i386 -stable from http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/packages/gnome/.

14 GNOME 2 Packages Now Available!

GNOME 2 packages for i386 FreeBSD-stable have been posted to http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/packages/gnome/. Both .tgz and .tbz packages have been posted. This includes everything needed to install GNOME 2 except for XFree86. These packages were built using XFree86 4.2.0 which is available in package format from a variety of locations. Please send email to freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org if you have any problems.

10 GNOME 2 Desktop Updated to 2.0.1 Release Candidate 1

The GNOME 2 components have now been updated to the just-announced GNOME 2.0.1 Release Candidate 1: "Not Considered Harmful" release.

June 30 GNOME 2.0 Officially Released

The FreeBSD GNOME team is proud to announce that GNOME 2.0 Release has been ported to FreeBSD. This comes four days after the GNOME Project made their press release. Look for documentation updates to cover the new GNOME 2.0 desktop.

15 GNOME 2 components update to Release Candidate 1

GNOME 2 on FreeBSD is now up to the "Fever Pitch" RC1. This is supposedly going to be the final release candidate for GNOME 2, with a final release coming around June 21.

11 GNOME 2 components updated to the latest snapshot

GNOME 2 components have been updated to the "Release formerly known as..." release snapshot. This brings a number of GNOME 2.0 components to 2.0.0. GNOME 2.0 release is imminent!

May 28 GNOME 2 components updated to the latest snapshot

GNOME 2 components have been upgraded to "Stay on target!" release snapshot. This brings a whole new round of bug fixes and GUI improvements to GNOME 2.

21 Full port of GNOME2 beta 5 release is available

The FreeBSD GNOME Team has finished porting of GNOME2 beta 5 release to FreeBSD. All existing ports were updated and many missed were added. The FreeBSD Ports Collection now contains all bits and pieces of the GNOME2 platform, both desktop and development ones.

The team now works on improving quility of the port, by tracking down FreeBSD-specific problems and fixing them. Another goal is to provide set of pre-built GNOME2 binary packages on the official FreeBSD 4.6 release media along with GNOME 1.4 bits and pieces.

We would encourage any help from our users in the form of problem reports, patches, suggestions etc.

April 26 GNOME2 ports updated to GNOME2 beta4 release

All components of GNOME2 Platform already ported to FreeBSD have been updated to the latest versions found in the official GNOME2 beta4 distribution.

6 GNOME2 ports updated to GNOME2 beta3 release

All components of GNOME2 Development Platform already ported to FreeBSD have been updated to the latest versions found in the official GNOME2 beta3 distribution.

5 Joe Clarke now committer

Joe Marcus Clarke has been granted a FreeBSD commit bit (direct access to the cvs repository). His main focus as a committer will be FreeBSD GNOME, so that expect much faster problem resolution than ever. It is also expected that he would revive somewhat stalled GNOME2 porting effort. Welcome aboard, Joe!!!

March 12 Mozilla 0.9.9 is out

Mozilla 0.9.9 is out bringing many bugfixes and new features and FreeBSD port was updated accordingly. Update is strongly recommended to all current users.

11 GNOME2 ports updated to GNOME2 beta2 release

All components of GNOME2 Development Platform already ported to FreeBSD have been updated to the latest versions found in the official GNOME2 beta2 distribution. Thanks to Joe Marcus Clarke for his help.

February 10 Work on porting GNOME2 platform to FreeBSD has begun

The FreeBSD GNOME team started some initial work on getting GNOME2 bits and pieces running on FreeBSD. The work is expected to take quite some time, though some initial set of ports making up core of the GNOME2 platform would be committed to the FreeBSD ports repository as soon as possible.

January 31 New FreeBSD GNOME site up and running

Brand new FreeBSD GNOME site is up and running. Many thanks to all who make it possible, particularly Joe Marcus Clarke and John Merryweather Cooper.

29 Ade is back!

Famous Ade Lovett, who was one of the main founders of the FreeBSD GNOME porting effort, but due to various reasons had left the FreeBSD GNOME team in June 2001 decided to re-join us. This is truly amazing news, because we still have many things to do, so that his help and huge experience in the field would be really useful.

28 Several core GNOME components updated

Several core GNOME ports were updated to the latest versions (gnomelibs, gnomecore, glade etc.) Please follow usual instructions to update your system.