Pits and Landings If you’ve been following the Ubuntu GNOME developments over the last couple of days, you’ve likely had a lot of questions about how to try it. Well, the Powerbase was the first publication to try and answer that question with this guide; but you no longer need it. As of about an [...]
How To Roll Your Own 13.04 Ubuntu Gnome Remix
Well now that news is out in the wild that Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 is now an official Ubuntu derivative, you’re probably wanting to test it out. Problem is, there is no ISO for it. That makes it pretty hard to try it out… We were expecting to find an ISO ourselves after the news broke [...]
Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Solves Identity Crisis, Moves To Mac
Today in his personal blog, Miguel de Icaza, founder of Gnome, and one of the most polarizing personalities in the free software world, announced that he is finished with the Linux platform –at least for personal use. Icaza has made a number of unpopular decisions over the years that have been rejected for the free [...]
Gnome Takes a Step Back To Make A Come Back With “Classic” 3.8
Put out your torches Linux community. We’ve known for a little while now that after that enormous backlash against Gnome for removing “fallback” mode, Gnome has announced that it plans to bring back a real “Classic” mode for it’s remaining users ready to make the exodus march. Now you can divide your negativity towards Unity [...]
Why Fedora 18 Will Be The Practical Choice For Vanilla Enthusiasts
You’ve come a long way, baby We all know about the rocky road that Gnome 3 has been travelling on since March of last year. Not since KDE 4.0 has a desktop environment been met with such community backlash and perceived exodus. I say “perceived” because that’s what it is. In the world of Linux, these things [...]
Intro To Gnome 3
GNOME3 I have been a Linux user since around 1993-94, and in that time I have seen projects rise, fall, rise again and some even died out completely. But of all of the projects that I have followed over the years, the ones I have always paid the most attention to were the window managers. [...]
Fedora Irresponsibly Lowers Memory Requirement To 512MB
Fedora 17 now officially sets it’s memory requirement for installation to 512MB. Before Fedora 17, the requirements and been a similarly unrealistic 768MB. A standard desktop installation with Gnome 3 in tow will not be able to perform realistically for any user. Of course Fedora is good for a great many configurations, including different desktop [...]
The Gnome 3 Meteor: Revisited
This article was originally published on 09/20/11 at Muktware.com Foreword I want to revisit this article for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I think enough has changed in the last 6 months to invite some commentary. Journalism is sometimes just the ability to speculate widly and then put those crazy, wide-eyed presumptions onto [...]
Gimp 2.8: So Close, Yet So Far, Yet So Close
The long-awaited and much anticipated 2.8 release of GIMP is right around the corner! Wait, I know, you’ve heard this before. You were expecting it at the end of 2010, and then in 2011, and so on… Well, fear not because it’s really coming in less than 45 days! Want proof? Nothing could be [...]
Shotwell Reaches 0.12.0, Finally Gets Support For GTK3
Finally In what seems like an eternity, the group over at Yorba.org unleashed Shotwell version 0.12.0 today after a period of stagnation that could only be exceeded by F-Spot or Duke Nukem Forever. The software package did not gain a lot of features, though seems to have been released just in time for Gnome 3.4. [...]
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