software details

You can try out GNOME 2.26 with the LiveCD, which contains all of the software included in GNOME 2.26 on a single CD. You can boot your computer directly from the LiveCD without installing anything. The LiveCD can be downloaded from the GNOME BitTorrent site.


To install or upgrade your machine to GNOME 2.26, we recommend you install official packages from your vendor or distribution. Popular distributions will make GNOME 2.26 available very soon, and some already have development versions with GNOME 2.26 available. You can get a list of distributions that ship GNOME and discover the latest versions they ship on our Get Footware page.

If you are brave and patient, and would like to build GNOME from source, we recommend you use one of the build tools. GARNOME builds GNOME from release tarballs. You will need GARNOME 2.26.x to build GNOME 2.26.x. There is also JHBuild, which is designed to build the latest GNOME from SVN. You can use JHBuild to build GNOME 2.26.x by using the gnome-2.26 moduleset.

While it is possible to build GNOME directly from the release tarballs, we strongly recommend the use of one of the build tools above.