Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

GNOME 2.26 Desktop Environment Released

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 18 March 2009 at 04:47 PM EDT. 2 Comments

After being in development for about six months, GNOME 2.26 has been released. New in GNOME 2.26.0 is the integration of the Brasero disc burning utility, volume control integration with PulseAudio, improved display management support (powered by RandR), and many other desktop enhancements.

Also released for GNOME 2.26.0 was GTK+ 2.16, which has a few improvements as well. The release notes for GNOME 2.26 with complete coverage for all of the new features can be found at GNOME.org.

2 Comments

GNOME Mutter Lands NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Copy Acceleration

GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer

GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland

LLVM BOLT Optimizations Net ~6% Improvement For GNOME's Pango

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.