GNOME 2.14 is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment, providing all the tools a user needs for everyday work, and a platform for developers to write new software.
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. Work has been done in this release to make it easier to port GNOME tools to Windows as well.
GNOME is part of The GNU Project, and is Free Software.
The Release Notes explain the contents of this release, showing what GNOME is, what's new, and how to get it, with links to further information.
The Release Notes are available in other languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Panjabi, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukranian, Vietnamese, Welsh.
Check out some great screenshots of GNOME 2.14 submitted by our intrepid testing community. These shots demonstrate our users' beautiful desktops, as well as some of the new features in this version of GNOME.
Although Linux distributions and other flavors of UNIX do not immediately integrate new GNOME versions, in the next few months many of the biggest distributions will package and ship GNOME 2.14. To see the latest information about who is shipping GNOME 2.14, visit our Get Footware page.
Of course, our sources are always available so you can build GNOME from scratch. See the Release Notes for more information about our build scripts, GARNOME and jhbuild.
Source Tarballs:
The Community Announcement is the official email announcing the release to the people who actually did the work.
The Press Release is our official announcement to the press and other traditional news outlets.
The Press Release is available in other languages: French, Portuguese (Brazil).