I use Xfree 4.0 with a kernel 2.2.15pre14 from BenH on an iMac DV in 24 bit color (cmode:24). It works fine but my screen is slightly trembling (with very bright white as already noticed by others). Is it going to damage my monitor? Any suggestions to stop the trambling?

was released yesterday. It features many stability improvements, an improved panel and several other Helix additions and fixes. In related news, the features an updated look and feel. Helix has also created some . Finally, is out.

If you are looking for a good email client for your system, take a look at these reviews. LinuxPower has a of CSC Mail, a GTK+ Perl email client. LinuxPlanet has a of several different GNOME email clients. Finally, LinuxWorld's version control XFMail (the classic XForms email client) to Balsa and CSC Mail.

As seen on , will be releasing Star Office 6.0's source code under the GPL on the 13th October. The press release is . Rumors are that the new code will be based on GTK and the Bonobo components, the same ones used by Gnumeric, Nautilus and Evolution.

The register this morning is reporting on . According to this article, GNOME is being choosen as the default desktop for Sun/StarOffice, because of it's popularity -- "... and LinuxPPC as being Gnome standard bearers right-now..." According to this article, the next version of Solaris will standardize on GNOME 2.0.

Richard Moore of KDE the fact this GNOME pact is more talk, and less actual code or proof of it's abilities -- and that KDE is also the choice for many popular distros.

The on the GNOME Pact announces that HP/UX and Solaris will be standardizing on GNOME 2.0 for the future, and that GNOME 2.0 will be including technologies from Open(Star)Office and Mozilla.

Miguel [from the GNOME Foundation] is profiled in in the September 18th issue of TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential innovators for the 21st century. Read about it

Today, Ximian Inc. announce the release of Ximian GNOME 1.4. it is the newest version of the Ximian Inc. end user desktop environment for the Linux and UNIX operating systems. With easy-to-use desktop for Linux and UNIX-based operating environments, includes Mozilla Web browser, Nautilus' file management functionality and the integration of Ximian Red Carpet 1.0.

You can read the Official announcment .

Ximian has announced in a recent press release that Ximinian Gnome 1.4 can now also be ordered on CD. Included are versions for Debian "potato" 2.2, LinuxPPC 2000, Mandrake 7.0-7.2, Redhat 6.0-7.1, SuSE 6.3-7.0, TurboLinux 6.0 and YDL CS 1.2. The source code is included as well. It can be ordered online at

are looking for people to submit suggestions and feature requests for the upcoming Gnome2. If you would like to see a new feature or have something behave differently, or just have some kind of suggestion for gnome, go .

There is a pretty cool article on that talks about XML in Gnome. The article can be found . is a desktop environment for . is a next generation document markup language.

Evolution 1.0 was released today. You can read the announcement , and you can find the binaries for PowerPC here. Evolution is a mail reader for Linux/Gnome by . For further details of features in 1.0, you can read the .

Ximian Evolution version 1.0.2 is now available. The software seamlessly integrates email, group calendaring, contact management and online task lists in one powerful, fast and easy-to-use application.
Evolution 1.0.2 resolves a number of smaller issues discovered in the previous release, and includes newly updated translations for a number of languages including French, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish. More info .

Many people hesitate to switch to a new mail client, in fear of loosing their mail or comfort. Joe Barr of did so nevertheless and switched from the popular Linux mail client to the (rather) new mailer which intends to give the same comfort and functionality than Outlook on MacOS.

Ximian EvolutionTM version 1.0.3 is now available. Evolution 1.0.3 resolves a number of smaller issues discovered in the previous release, and includes enhanced compatibility with the forthcoming Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange. You can expect to see improved performance and stability in this release, especially for addressbook functions over LDAP. ...

is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet program from the GNOME project. Its goal is to compete with the commercial offerings. It is capable of reading and writing MS Excel spreadsheets, and reading many other formats.

This is a bug fix release, new development is being done in version 1.1.x based on gnome2.

This release includes a few fixes for problems with previous versions of Evolution; in particular, it fixes a pretty nasty bug that could crash the mail component when downloading messages. It is highly advised that users upgrade to this version. ...

According to the , Ximian GNOME is now available for Red Hat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2, and YellowDog 2.2.

OTTAWA, Canada--June 26, 2002--The GNOME Foundation today released version 2.0 of the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform at the Ottawa Linux Symposium. With the inclusion of GNOME 2.0 by leading Linux and Unix vendors later this year, users of GNOME can look forward to an improved user environment for existing GNOME applications, including a faster and more powerful Nautilus file manager, features that are better organized and usability-tested, dozens of useful utilities, applications and even games. Users and administrators will also see a new, simplified configuration system. Developers can look forward to more efficient application development with stronger integration of GNOME APIs and the advantages of GNOME's component-based architecture. .