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What is GNOME?

GNOME is a complete desktop environment, and a comprehensive suite of applications. In GNOME, everything is easy-to-use, attractive, powerful, and works the way you expect it to.

The major components of GNOME are the GNOME desktop, an easy-to-use window-based desktop environment, and the GNOME development platform, a collection of application-development tools and libraries.

The FreeBSD GNOME Project is a team of devoted committers and users that manage the integration of GNOME and FreeBSD.

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Where is GNOME 2.12?

Upgrading to GNOME 2.12?

We have had the GNOME 2.12 upgrade ready since the day it came out, but - the FreeBSD ports tree is still in a partial lockdown for the release - of FreeBSD 6.0. Merging in a GNOME upgrade during the freeze would be - too disruptive, so we are waiting until the tree is completely unfrozen.

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In the meantime, you can read the - Development - Branch FAQ for information about getting GNOME 2.12 from our development - repository. However, keep in mind that maintaining a ports tree from two - separate locations can be tricky; we advise that most users wait until - we merge GNOME 2.12 into the main FreeBSD ports tree.

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Simple solutions to build problems - quickly!

GNOME is simple and easy to build using the FreeBSD ports system, but sometimes things simply go wrong. If GNOME -- or anything that uses GNOME libraries -- is not building the way it should, simply run the gnomelogalyzer.sh tool from the directory of the failed port, and let the gnomelogalyzer figure out what's wrong and how to fix it!