• 16.06.2002 :  The GNOME-2.0/1.4.1 Installation Guide has been updated
  • 17.03.2002 :  The initial version of the GNOME-2.0 Installation Guide has been published.
  • 01.01.2002 :  From now on you will find explications how to install GNOME-2.0.
  • 03.11.2001 :  From now on one should never discuss the colors again.
  • 18.10.2001 :  I've integrated an enviroment-page where you can read on which systems the GIG has successfully been used. You are invited to complete that list.
  • 18.10.2001 :  Recently I've been asked by the author of GnomeMeeting, why I've put his application into the category "Loosely associated applications", although he has respected all standards and although "GnomeMeeting was recognized as an official Gnome project application".
    This question directs to a critical point: It's not my job to decide, wether an application is a real GNOME application or not. I've to respect the state of GNOME. This state is determined by the directories
    1. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/
    2. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/betas/gnome-1.4.1beta2/
    3. http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/betas/gnome-fifth-toe-1.4.1beta2/
    And only official GNOME people decide wether an application is integrated into this official and semi-official GNOME directories. (By the way: I'm not one of these official GNOME people)
    It has never been my aim to depreciate any application. Quite on the contrary I like many applications which are not mentioned under these directories. To find such applications has been one of the main reasons to write the GIG. So I'm very sorry if I have evoked the impression that I discriminate against some applications.
    For preveting such impressions I've erased my category "important GNOME applications". All members of that category have been bushed into the category "Loosely associated applications" And those which I've been selected by myself for being installed on my small old laptop are marked by the sign "»": they form a subset of the applications which shall allow to have on small machines the maximal purpose of GNOME with a minimal usage of memory and storage. And this subset has no official state. It's only a little addon.