Re: Plans for Ubuntu Release and GNOME download?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 29 Sep 2008, at 16:14, Dave Neary wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> > I like to know or suggest that GNOME will also announce the  
> > availability
> > of GNOME 2.24 in Ubuntu - as this will be AFAIK the first major  
> > distro
> > which will give the users the new GNOME. I think at least this  
> > should be
> > mentioned somewhere on the homepage.
>
> Thanks again for your suggestion Thilo. For completeness, Ubuntu  
> 8.10 is
> due to release on October 30th (just before Hallowe'en... scary).
>
> GNOME 2.24 will also be included in OpenSuse 11.1 and Fedora, major
> distributions both, due for release respectively on Dec 18th and Nov
> 25th. It will also be in an upcoming Mandriva 2009 (due out on Oct  
> 9th -
> before Ubuntu, in fact).

And also OpenSolaris 2008.11, to be released in November (don't know  
the exact date yet, though...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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