Neowin News Feed for: Gnome

Debian drops Xfce, reinstates GNOME as default desktop

Rob Schorman — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:52:00 +0000

Three months ago, Debian's developers chose to replace GNOME with the Xfce desktop environment. It seems that the next release will use GNOME 3 after all, just like Linus Torvalds himself now Read more...

Ubuntu with 'pure GNOME experience' coming

Rob Schorman — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:23:41 +0100

If you dislike Ubuntu's standard desktop environment called Unity, you might be interested in a new Ubuntu flavor which promises to bring a 'pure GNOME experience' to the popular Linux distribution Read more...

Debian drops GNOME, chooses Xfce as default desktop

Rob Schorman — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:32:34 +0100

For many years, the standard desktop environment of Debian has been GNOME. However the next release of the Linux distribution will use Xfce as the default environment, but for a strange reason. Read more...

GNOME 4.0 and GNOME OS coming in 2014

Rob Schorman — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:52:52 +0100

The developers of the GNOME desktop environment don't just want to bring out version 4 in 2014, they even want to come with their own Linux distribution, with a 20% global market share in 2020. Read more...

Ubuntu to use Unity as default desktop system

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:42:54 +0100

Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's founding father, made a surprising announcement at the Ubuntu Developers Summit yesterday. Shuttleworth stated that starting with Ubuntu version 11.04, the primary desktop would be Unity rather than Gnome. Shuttleworth said, "users... Read more...

Shift Linux 0.3 Gnome Ready for Testing

Todd Tanner — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:59:55 +0100

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Today sees the release of Shift Linux 0.3 (Gnome) for testing. This is a Live CD based off of Morphix, is Debian based, and developed in-house here at Neowin. It comes with many packages as... Read more...

GNOME 2.12 released

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:16:18 +0100

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Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.12, the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment. Released on schedule, to the day, it is the culmination of six months... Read more...

GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop and Developer Platform

Philipp — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 13:30:36 +0100

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The GNOME 2.6.2 Desktop and Developer Platform has been released: "This point release from the stable branch of the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform contains a lot of bugfixes and improvements over the... Read more...

GNOME 2.7.2 Development

malebolgia — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 18:58:56 +0100

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GNOME project has built a complete free and easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the software developer. GNOME is included in pretty much every BSD and GNU/Linux... Read more...

Mozilla, Gnome mull united front against Longhorn

malebolgia — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 17:42:58 +0100

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As Microsoft focuses on merging its Web browser and operating system software, open-source competitors are mulling a proposal to join forces and beat the software giant to the punch. Representatives from two... Read more...

Server breach likely to delay Gnome

malebolgia — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:17:33 +0000

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The Gnome Project said Tuesday that its servers have apparently been breached, potentially delaying the latest release of its desktop system for Linux. In a e-mail alert sent Tuesday, the managers of... Read more...

GNOME 2.5.0

crusher — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:08:51 +0000

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GNOME 2.5.0 GNOME project has built a complete free and easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the software developer. GNOME is included in... Read more...

GNOME 2.02 Desktop and Developer Platform

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Sep 2002 09:44:49 +0100

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Red Hat nullifies KDE, Gnome

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:34:51 +0100

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Red Hat's Owen Taylor has been explaining why the distro has decided to erase the differences between the look and feel of its desktop offerings from KDE and Gnome. It should give even the most... Read more...

GNOME 2.0 Desktop Released

aco — Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:21:12 +0100

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Thanks to SYBOLD for the heads up. The GNOME Foundation today released version 2.0 of the GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform at the Ottawa Linux Symposium. With the inclusion of GNOME 2.0... Read more...

GNOME 2.0 Desktop RC2

aco — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:04:23 +0100

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A number of release critical issues were resolved after Release Candidate 1, so to ensure adequate testing and review before GNOME 2.0 Desktop Final, we've made a second release candidate for wider testing. RC2 should... Read more...

Gnome 2.0 RC1

Mr magoo — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:08:38 +0100

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If you, like thousands of other linux users use Gnome, then you'll be excited to read here that Gnome 2.0 RC1 has been released! The links below provide a vast wealth of information; also, it... Read more...

GNOME 2.0 Beta

Toxicfume — Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:42:36 +0000

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The first public beta release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is ready for your testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download. Please read the release notes first! Due for general consumption in March, the... Read more...

GNOME 2.0 Developer Platform Beta

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 15 Dec 2001 09:51:49 +0000

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The GNOME project has built a complete free and easy-to-use desktop environment for the user, as well as a powerful application framework for the software developer. GNOME is included in pretty much every BSD and... Read more...

Gnome answers MS Cleartype(TM)

Steven Parker — Mon, 03 Sep 2001 04:23:52 +0100

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Well, almost.. McVeigh revels in this posting at Gnotices site which reads: "GDKFXT transparently adds anti-aliased font support to GTK+-1.2. Once you have installed it, you can run any (well, nearly any) existing GTK+ binary... Read more...