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. [...]
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 [...]
Gnome 2.x, I’ll Miss You.
Note: This article was originally published August 24th, 2011 at Muktware.com. Some of the content here no longer represents the way that I feel about Unity at present, and much of this can be taken with a grain of salt. Even still, I do miss Gnome 2.x even though it hasn’t fully disappeared yet. [...]
The ‘Mate’ project: It’s real, and it’s really happening!
If you haven’t heard, Linux Mint is up to something great. With that greatness, they verified quite confidently that the ‘Mate’ project is actually up and running and packages are being installed and working! For those of you who don’t know, Mate is a project that offers the traditional Gnome 2.x desktop to modern machines. [...]
Linux Mint: This Is What I Want!
Great news today from the Mint project! The Linux Mint project has a real traditional desktop using Gnome 3 as a base! This may be just what you already expected. I know I expected to see this, but not with so much polish. From a technological point of view, Gnome 3 is a fantastic desktop, [...]