The desktop of just about every Windows PC I’ve ever used has ended up being a mess. It gets cluttered with files I’d meant to save temporarily, but which are usually still there for months or years, shortcuts to applications I’d installed but rarely use, and other litter. I don’t think about it much, because […]
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Purism’s Librem 5 Linux smartphone will support GNOME or KDE software (if it launches)
3 Comments on Purism’s Librem 5 Linux smartphone will support GNOME or KDE software (if it launches)Purism launched a crowdfunding campaign for a GNU/Linux smartphone last month, in the hopes of raising $1.5 million to bring the Purism Librem 5 to market. With more than a month to go, the corporation has raised nearly $300,000 which sounds pretty good until you realize that it’s just about 20 percent of the goal. […]
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Ubuntu 17.04 released… as developers prepare to make GNOME the default desktop in 2018
5 Comments on Ubuntu 17.04 released… as developers prepare to make GNOME the default desktop in 2018Ubuntu’s been in the news a bit lately due to the decision to drop the Unity desktop environment, give up on smartphones and tablets, and switch to the GNOME desktop by this time next year. But today Canonical released the latest stable build of Ubuntu, and it still very much features the Unity desktop experience […]
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Ubuntu 18.04 to feature GNOME desktop by default (DisUnity?)
After years of working on a user interface designed to run across phones, tablets, and desktop computers, the developers of the Ubuntu operating system have decided to shift focus. Starting next year, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu will be GNOME rather than Unity. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says the  change will start with the […]
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Ubuntu GNOME is now an official alternative to Unity, KDE, etc
Love Ubuntu Linux, but hate the Unity desktop environment that Canonical ships with it? There are a number of alternative versions of Ubuntu supported by a large development community including Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu — each with a different desktop environment. Now you can add Ubuntu GNOME to the list. Up until a few years […]
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Ubuntu 12.10 GNOME Remix released
Ubuntu remains one of the most popular desktop Linux operating systems around. But over the past few years the developers have annoyed a fair number of long-time users by switching the default desktop environment from GNOME to Unity. Unity was built in-house, and while it’s not a bad looking user interface, it’s also not nearly […]
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GNOME edition of Ubuntu 12.10 coming in October
It’s been a few years since Canonical stopped using the GNOME desktop environment for Ubuntu Linux and instead switched to its own Unity user interface. While Unity has come a long way in the last few years, some people still hate it. Fortunately you can always install GNOME yourself, or choose an alternate version of […]
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Fedora 17 now available for download
The developers behind the popular Fedora Linux operating system have released Fedora 17 “Beefy Miracle.” Fedora doesn’t get as much attention these days as Ubuntu or even Linux Mint, but the open source, community-driven operating system has been around for years — and was one of the first Linux distros I ever took for a […]
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Ubuntu 12.10 may get GNOME Flavoring (along with Unity, KDE, etc)
Up until a few years ago Ubuntu Linux used the GNOME desktop environment which provided the basic look and feel to the desktop and toolbar as well as a series of default apps. But starting with Ubuntu 11.04, GNOME was replaced with the Unity user interface which was built by the Ubuntu developers. Users who […]
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Latest Fedora, OpenSuse releases with GNOME 3.2 now available
Ubuntu Linux gets a lot of attention as one of the most popular Linux distributions. Heck, I wrote an article today just to let you know that the code-name for the next version has been selected. But a fair number of long-time Ubuntu users have been turned off recently by the developers’ decision to switch […]