Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:01:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com> To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org Subject: [Announce] GNOME 1.0.40, beta release I'm pleased to announce the release of GNOME 1.0.40, a beta on the road to the next major GNOME release. The GNOME hackers ask you to double check their thoroughly bug-fixed releases to verify that all the bugs are really gone. If you go to ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-1.0.40/ (or a mirror), you will see a bunch of tar files. The suggested installation order is: Prerequisites for the gnome libraries audiofile-0.1.9.tar.gz Audio file format library esound-0.2.14.tar.gz Sound server glib-1.2.5.tar.gz Utility routines libxml-1.4.0.tar.gz XML library ORBit-0.4.95.tar.gz CORBA implementation gtk+-1.2.5.tar.gz Widget set imlib-1.9.7.tar.gz Image loading and manipulation library Prerequisites for the main GNOME modules gnome-libs-1.0.40.tar.gz The main GNOME libraries libgtop-1.0.4.tar.gz Portable system status access library libghttp-1.0.4.tar.gz HTTP access library The main GNOME modules gnome-core-1.0.41.tar.gz Panel, help browser, session manager mc-4.5.39.tar.gz File manager control-center-1.0.40.tar.gz Graphical configuration for user settings gdm-2.0beta3.tar.gz Graphical login screen Prerequisities for some of the apps libglade-0.6.tar.gz GUI builder library gnome-print-0.8.tar.gz GNOME printing library Cool applications and add-ons ee-0.3.10.tar.gz Image viewer gtop-1.0.4.tar.gz CPU & memory usage monitoring gnome-media-1.0.41.tar.gz CD player, volume control, sound visualizer gnome-pim-1.0.10.tar.gz Calendar, addressbook gnome-utils-1.0.13.tar.gz Small utilities (hex editor, system info, file finder) gtk-engines-0.6.tar.gz More themes xchat-1.2.1.tar.gz IRC client gnumeric-0.38.tar.gz Spreadsheet Development tools glade-0.5.3.tar.gz GUI builder gnome-objc-1.0.40.tar.gz Objective C language bindings gnome-python-1.0.4.tar.gz Python language bindings Gtk---1.0.2.tar.gz C++ language bindings If you want everything in one piece, ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-1.0.40.tar.gz is also available. .rpm and .deb packages should be available for the various distributions as soon as we find volunteers to build them :) Now is a VERY good time to tell us how buggy GNOME 1.0.40 is. Included in gnome-libs is a 'gnome-bug' script that you can use to report problems. You can also discuss problems on the gnome-list mailing list. We will try to make another beta release shortly if the bug list warrants. Thanks go to to all the hackers who have worked so hard on making this release happen, and who are continuing to fix bugs in preparation for the upcoming release. -- Elliot The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat pieces and avoids complexity.