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The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop. You can learn more about how GNOME can work for you at the Why Choose GNOME? page.

GNOME is...Free
GNOME is Free Software and part of the GNU project, dedicated to giving users and developers the ultimate level of control over their desktops, their software, and their data. Find out more about the GNU project and Free Software at gnu.org. GNOME understands that usability is about creating software that is easy for everyone to use, not about piling on features.

International
GNOME is used, developed and documented in dozens of languages.

Developer-friendly
Developers are not tied to a single language with GNOME. You can use C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, even C#, to produce high-quality applications that integrate smoothly into the rest of your Unix or Linux desktop.

Organized
GNOME strives to be an organized community, with a foundation of several hundred members, usability, accessibility, and QA teams, and an elected board. GNOME releases are defined by the GNOME Release Team and are scheduled to occur every six months.

Supported
Beyond the worldwide GNOME Community, GNOME is supported by the leading companies in Linux and Unix, including HP, MandrakeSoft, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun. Find out more at foundation.gnome.org

A community
Perhaps more than anything else, GNOME is a worldwide community of volunteers who hack, translate, design, QA, and generally have fun together. Find out more at GNOME Developer's site.

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GNOME 2.18 ( 'Simply Beautiful')
March 14, 2007

GNOME 2.18 is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment, providing all the tools a user needs for everyday work, and a platform for developers to write new software.

"GNOME 2.18 is out, on time as usual. The top-class free desktop for the masses looks and feels better than ever. This is another progressive release in our road to perfection. It integrates another load of improvements done in the visual design, the performance of the desktop components, and the growing collection of integrated applications. The web browser and the themeable window manager are two good examples to check.

Personal security is now fully integrated into the desktop, allowing digitally signed communications, encryption of emails and local files, and user-friendly management of personal keys. Internationalization records progress in all directions, with support for vertical text layout and a full Arabic localization matching the quality standards. The official release incorporates essential tools for developers, which hopefully will contribute to get more and better software for the GNOME users.

What's more important, for the first time we ship online games, chess with a 3D look, and endless Sudoku entertainment."

Release Notes in more detail & screenshots.

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GNOME 2.20 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalization and accessibility support. Based on Free and Open Source Software, GNOME provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, as well as a flexible and powerful platform for software developers.

The improvements in GNOME 2.20 include: Improved support for right-to-left languages; desktop search integrated into the file chooser dialog; convenient new features in the Evolution email and calendar client; enhanced browsing of image collections; simplified system preferences; efficient power management and incredibly accurate laptop battery monitoring. Developers receive more help with application development thanks to a new version of the GTK+ toolkit, improved tools, and a great new documentation web site.

GNOME 2.20 Release Notes

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GNOME 2.22 Released
March 13, 2008

GNOME 2.22 includes all of the improvements made in GNOME 2.20 and earlier. You can learn more about the changes that happened in GNOME 2.20 from its release notes.

The GNOME Project's focus on users and usability continues in GNOME 2.22 with its hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements. The sheer number of enhancements makes it impossible to list every change and improvement made, but we hope to highlight some of the more exciting user-oriented features in this release of GNOME.

The release of GNOME 2.22 is dedicated to Raphael Higino, member of the GNOME translation team and GNOME Brazil.

GNOME 2.22.1 released!
Wed, 9 Apr 2008

This is the first update to GNOME 2.22. Come and see all the bug fixing,
all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to
you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors! A lot of work has been
done in the stable branch to make it even more solid than it was.

The next stable version of GNOME will be GNOME 2.22.2, which is due on
May 26. Meanwhile, the GNOME community is actively working on the
unstable branch of GNOME that will become GNOME 2.24 in September 2008.

The notes that describe the changes between 2.22.0 and 2.22.1 are here:

admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.22/2.22.1/NEWS
bindings - http://download.gnome.org//bindings/2.22/2.22.1/NEWS
desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.22/2.22.1/NEWS
devtools - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.22/2.22.1/NEWS
platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.22/2.22.1/NEWS

The GNOME 2.22.1 release is available here:

admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.22/2.22.1/
bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.22/2.22.1/
desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.22/2.22.1/
devtools sources - http://download.gnome.org/devtools/2.22/2.22.1/
platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.22/2.22.1/


http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.22.1/

GNOME 2.24
September 25, 2008
http://www.gnome.org/

Tthe GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.24, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop
environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to offer the best experience to users and developers.

Some highlights of GNOME 2.24 are a better support for instant messaging and for audio/video conferencing, but also the first official release of the GNOME Mobile platform!

Release Notes