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dropline GNOME 2.16.1 Available.

After two months of building and refining this release, we’ve finally come to a point at which we’re pleased with the results and are ready to break the news that dropline GNOME 2.16.1 is complete! It’s been quite a game of “Let’s just try to fix *one more* bug”, or “Let’s tidy up that minor detail that’s been bugging us for a while.” Finally, we have what we believe is our best GNOME desktop yet!

There have been several changes since our previous major release. As part of our efforts to slim things down, the total number of packages has been decreased by almost 13%. This was possible by eliminating rebuilds of several packages that are now included in Slackware by default, and restructuring the multimedia framework to eliminate several libraries that we felt weren’t needed. Additionally, we’ve also made the decision to discontinue the inclusion of a custom X11 build with this release, as we’ve found that Slackware’s X11 6.9.0 build was more than suitable.

It should also be noted that for automounting and file alteration monitoring to work properly you will need kernel Linux 2.6.17 or greater. Please see the requirements page for more details.

This release also sports a new default GTK and Metacity theme; TwoSixteen, from our very own Silvestre Herrera (aka ertz).

GNOME 2.16 has many speed improvements that are the result of optimization efforts that have been in-progress since 2.12.0 was released last year. Our goal with this release has been to make everything smaller, faster, and more refined than previous releases. We are quite pleased with the results, and hope that you will be as well.

Thank you for using dropline GNOME 2.16!

-The dropline GNOME Development Team.

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Dropline GNOME 2.16.1 Pre-Release.

Several dedicated testers have been helping to iron out our beta release over the last few weeks, and we believe it’s time that we make an announcement on the front page that Dropline GNOME 2.16.1 Pre-Release is now available!

There have been several changes since 2.14.3. As part of our efforts to slim things down, the total number of packages has been decreased by almost 13%. This was possible by eliminating rebuilds of several packages that are now included in Slackware by default, and restructuring the multimedia framework to eliminate several libraries that we felt weren’t needed. Additionally, we’ve also made the decision to discontinue the inclusion of a custom X11 build with this release, as we’ve found that Slackware’s X11 6.9.0 build was more than suitable.

Due to the large number of changes, we suggest that all users install on clean, full-installs of Slackware 11.0 (Disk 1) for the best experience. The pre-release installer is available from the following location:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dropline-gnome/dropline-installer-2.16.0-i686-2dl.tgz?download

-The dropline GNOME Development Team

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dropline GNOME 2.14.3 Available.

Several updates for GNOME 2.14.3 have been posted within the last week, finishing up this release in time for us to begin working on preparations for GNOME 2.16.0. Recent updates in the slackware.com ChangeLog indicate that 11.0 will be here just in time for the next GNOME release. For the time being, existing dropline GNOME 2.14.x users may upgrade with ease, by using the “upgrade” feature from within the dropline-installer.

New users may find the latest installer (for Slackware 10.2) on our download page.

-The dropline GNOME Development Team

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2006-05-31 – dropline GNOME 2.14.2 Released

If you’ve been keeping upgraded with the installer, you are now running dropline GNOME 2.14.2. Otherwise, if you already have dropline installed, run the dropline-installer, and choose upgrade, you will be updated to dropline GNOME 2.14.2. For fresh installs please follow the instructions on our download page.

Enjoy!

-The dropline GNOME Development Team

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2006-04-24 – dropline GNOME 2.14.1 at Last!

After many hours of work getting the bugs out, 2.14.1 is finally available for download. We’ve really outdone ourselves this time, with a lot of new art from Silvestre Herrera (aka ertz) including the awesome new Yasis icon theme, along with the latest versions of all of the included applications, and a few our users suggested be included in this release.

As with mangnitude of such a release, we would not have done it if our users did not help with testing/finding bugs to make this release possible. Thanks to all of you in helping us!

To download, get the installer for Slackware 10.2 here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dropline-gnome/dropline-installer-2.14.1-i686-1dl.tgz?download

An ISO will be available shortly as well.

-The dropline GNOME Development Team

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2006-03-05 – dropline GNOME 2.12.3 Available

Updates for GNOME 2.12.3 have been available for the majority of the week, bringing in a total of 47 new packages. This is primarily just a minimalistic bugfix release. The upcoming 2.14.0 release will offer many more changes and improvements. Existing dropline GNOME 2.12 users may upgrade with ease, by using the “upgrade” feature from within the dropline-installer.

New users may find the latest installer (for Slackware 10.2) on our download page.