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GNOME 2 was released on June 26, 2002 at the Linux Symposium in Ottawa. [8] Starting with GNOME 2.4, a timed release cadence was adopted, which called for a new version to be released roughly every six months. This effectively resulted in new stable GNOME versions being released every September and March of any given year.
GNOME 2 was released in June 2002 [59] [60] and was very similar to a conventional desktop interface, featuring a simple desktop in which users could interact with virtual objects such as windows, icons, and files. GNOME 2 started out with Sawfish as its default window manager, but later switched to Metacity in GNOME 2.2.
Sabayon Linux uses the latest version of GNOME Shell. openSUSE's GNOME edition has used GNOME Shell since version 12.1 in November 2011. [30] Mageia 2 and later include GNOME Shell, since May 2012. [31] Debian 8 and later features GNOME Shell in the default desktop, since April 2015. [32] [33] Solaris 11.4 replaced GNOME 2 with GNOME Shell in ...
Its succession as the ongoing focus of The GNOME Project was the impetus for the fork of GNOME 2 known as the MATE desktop environment as well as the creation of the Cinnamon desktop environment, which follows more traditional desktop metaphor conventions. The first adoption of GNOME 3 in a major Linux distribution was version 15 of Fedora ...
Ubuntu MATE is a free and open-source Linux distribution and an official derivative of Ubuntu.Its main differentiation from Ubuntu is that it uses the MATE desktop environment as its default user interface (based on GNOME 2), instead of the GNOME 3 desktop environment that is the default user interface for Ubuntu.
GNOME Logo. Free and open-source software portal; GNOME is a computer desktop environment for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It is the official desktop of the GNU Project. This category contains articles related to GNOME. For related companies, see Category:GNOME_companies. For People, see Category:GNOME_developers
Ubuntu GNOME 12.10 Quantal Quetzal was the first stable version, released on 18 October 2012. [4] Writing in October 2013, Jim Lynch stated: "Ubuntu GNOME 13.10 will be welcomed by GNOME fans. GNOME 3.8 adds some significant new features that enhance the desktop experience, and all of it has been combined well with Ubuntu 13.10 itself.
Gnote is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application written for Linux, cloned by Hubert Figuière from Tomboy. [2] It uses a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Gnote is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often filling the need for personal information management. The main principle is a notepad with a wiki-style ...