GNOME 2.14

Published Thu, 2006-03-16 13:52

GNOME 2.14, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment.

It is the culmination of six months effort by GNOME contributors around the world: hackers, documentors, usability and accessibility specialists, translators, maintainers, sysadmins, companies, artists, users and testers. Due to their hard work, we have another great release to be proud of - thanks very much to every contributor!

GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalization and accessibility support, so that GNOME and its applications are usable by anyone, anywhere. GNOME runs on a variety of platforms, including GNU/Linux (commonly called Linux), Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple's Darwin.

Some of the key new features:

The creation of an admin suite, including a lock down editor, Pessulus, and a user profile editor, Sabayon
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A new search bar, called Deskbar, which can search through local files, programs and contacts as well as on the web
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Ekiga, the VoIP client formerly known as GNOME Meeting. It can now communicate using the SIP protocol which is already used by Google Talk, Asterisk and others.
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Performance work, making your desktop even snappier
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The ability to switch users quickly, without logging off
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Even easier configuration, allowing GNOME 2.14 to adapt to different users needs

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