GNOME Developer Kit, now with less fat!
UPDATE: Thanks Alberto Ruiz for pointing out that VirtualBox can use .vmdk files, so the VMware image can be used for that purpose.
Thanks to the incredible work of Zhang “Jesse” Sen and Vladimir Melo, a brand new release of the GNOME Developer Kit has been published! “What’s new”, you may ask? Everything, since all packages are built directly from git.gnome.org! 
But that alone is not what makes this release so cool, but the fact that the final image went through a dramatic “diet”, shedding a lot of its “weight” and going from a 1.4GB monster to less than 700MB of pure GNOME goodness!!!
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Firefox was replaced by Epiphany and codecs and fancy-Nancy stuff was scrapped to make room for a lightweight release for developers and translators!
So go ahead and try the new images today:
- x86 VMware (R) Virtual Appliance 636 MB, SHA1: 4b4266fc1a65189d65efd7f3ac51797396babf78
- x86 Appliance Installable ISO 697 MB, SHA1: c3345cadae9c7338d0b92ba0ad1a187930652357
- x86 Parallels, QEMU (Raw Hard Disk) 644 MB, SHA1: e3dbbff4e65f8e086f422885a24d8ee04bc89f44
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March 9th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Which one goes best with Virtualbox?
March 9th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Great work Og!
It would be nice to release VirtualBox images as well as it is (for most of the part) opensource and is really well packaged for the most popular linux distros.
March 9th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Hey Alberto, thanks for the kind comment.
For VirtualBox you could use the RAW filesystem image actually. 
Cheers,
Og
March 9th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
VBox can actually use .vmdk as well, it would be nice to point out people that such images can be used in VBox in the release notes
March 9th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
NB: to use the raw filesystem image with VirtualBox you have to convert it with
VBoxManage convertdd filename.hdd filename.vdi
VBoxManage modifyvdi filename.vdi compact
March 9th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
There’s no need to convert image, as Alberto Ruiz told Og. The user may add vmz image using Vbox disk manager and select this image later when wizard prompts the disk to be used in the operating system.
March 10th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Great work on this, Og. Thanks for making it available, I hope it helps get a few more developers involved. Great stuff!
March 10th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Incidentally, did anybody manage to run this in KVM? I failed (INIT: cannot execute “/bin/sh”; “x” respawning too fast).
March 11th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
@Marius,
So you got a same error with https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611871#c5. We will look into it. Thank you for the feedback.