- GnomeFiles
GnomeFiles is a software repository for the
GTK+ widget toolkit and theGNOME desktop environment. It was launched on16 June ,2004 [http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7393] , two months after GNOME closed its software repository due to security issues. It is an admitted clone ofBeBits , a similar BeOS software repository which predates it by half a decade. GnomeFiles.org is currently owned byOSNews LLC and its source code is licensed fromEugenia Loli-Queru .Except its dedicated WAP site, the main GnomeFiles site is written using the "
MoBits " mobile-browser autodetection engine, which autodetects more than 150 mobile, embedded and text-mode browsers and serves them automatically lighter, ad-free cHTML pages.GnomeFiles serves more than 22,000 page views per day, on average (Oct 2005 statistics).Fact|date=June 2007
The Website was shut down at
1 September ,2008 , as it got hacked, but re-appeared in a limited fashion 15 days later.External links
* [http://www.gnomefiles.org/ Website]
* [http://wap.gnomefiles.org/ WAP-only Website]
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