GNOME — the software and the community — is the secret sauce behind recent barnstorming Linux desktop products such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. The project’s passionate developer community, “Just Works” approach and fierce focus on “Universal Access” — usability, internationalisation and accessibility — are making Open Source desktop technology compelling, desireable and commercially viable for both consumers and enterprise.
Every six months, the GNOME project delivers a timely reminder that software freedom is not just for geeks.
Check out the release notes and Ars Technica’s GNOME 2.16 (p)review to find out all the juicy details. Though the Ars Technica article mentions ‘performance’ five times, it doesn’t delve too deep into the impressive top-to-bottom improvements found in 2.16. Our brilliant performance hackers are still busily carving big chunks out of our memory and CPU footprint, and I expect we’ll see more great results in 2.18. In particular, I’m looking forward to some eye-opening laptop power consumption graphs in the 2.18 release notes. 
March 2007, here we come!
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Woohooo!
Don’t know why Fedora is not mentioned here, but ok.
Mainly because Fedora hasn’t been hitting as many sixes in the press as Ubuntu and SUSE. I dig Fedora, but my point would not have been made if I were being inclusive only for the sake of being inclusive.
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