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 [...]
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. [...]
Elementary Spears a Marlin, ‘Files’ Is Born
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish Marlin, the expected file manager for the Pantheon desktop environment, has been abandoned by its developer, Am Monkey. Abandoned may be a harsh term. Marlin’s homepage on Launchpad shows that he simply “lost interest”. It seems that not all is lost for the Elementary project as they [...]
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. [...]
Did F-Spot Go To Heaven Mommy?
F-Spot. Catapulted into the limelight of the Linux desktop as Ubuntu began to capture mind-share in the mainstream. F-Spot was my choice in photo manager for years. It didn’t do everything right, but it certainly felt like it belonged on a Gnome desktop, and felt just different enough to stand out among its contemporaries. Now, there is [...]
The Mate Project’s New Logo. Is It Stolen?
No! The Mate Project. A great project that aims to maintain Gnome 2.x and make it installable alongside Gnome 3, seems to have a new logo. At first glance, it is a very attractive logo, but when you hover over the image, it says the following; “Logo created by neocrust, used without permission” It was [...]
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