Monthly Archives: June 2005

Paul Thurrott writes about Ubuntu and GNOME: “Ubuntu is based on the GNOME desktop environment, which happens to be my favorite. […] The bundled applications are excellent and well chosen. […] Now, couple those basic needs with the uncluttered simplicity of the Ubuntu Linux UI, and you’ve got a winner.” (Yes, that Paul Thurrott!)

freescreensaver?

The time for freescreensaver [1] is now!
[1] A non-existant but possibly extremely useful freedesktop.org defined screensaver standard built around a more flexible code and maintainership fork of Xscreensaver.
Update: Amusing Eugenia moment in Jeremy Zawodny’s blog entry about this.

GNOME in Bulgaria

Wow, so that was quick! Yavor Doganov let me know all about gnome.cult.bg and the GNOME lovers in Bulgaria!

You’ve blogged about gnome.cult.bg today - let me explain you what it is. In
the past 18 months the GNOME Bulgarian Translation Project was resurrected by
our fearless leader Alexander Shopov (aka al_shopov), the website (GNOME in
Bulgarian!) is the main […]

Is gnome.cult.bg a little GNOME community that we don’t know enough about? Please join marketing-list and let us know what you’re up to! The front page looks suspiciously like a team blog or aggregate - perhaps it should be linked on Planet GNOME?

Goings on of Planet GNOME

Lots of things going on in Planet GNOME land recently.
Steve Garrity provided a very sexy update to Seth and Diana’s speech-balloon concept. It makes Planet GNOME a delight to read all over again. More tweaks on the way. Thanks, Steve!
I’ve revitalised the news page, which will end up moving to news.gnome.org when it has achieved full rockingness. […]

Alvaro proposed an interesting new splash screen for Ubuntu. Not work safe.

behdad had a bloody good idea, so I set up a way to make it work, and then added some test data. But I could not stop adding test data. I am a bad person.