“No doubt you’ve heard the prediction before — ‘this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop’. At the risk of being repetitive, though, I’m going to go ahead and say it: 2008 really could be the year of the Linux desktop.” — Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, Is 2008 the Year of the Linux Desktop?
So if […]
Check out the Ubuntu website to see their lovely birthday cake and message to GNOME. Remember that the combined GNOME + Ubuntu bug squishing / hug sharing day is today!
Everyone’s having a party during our ten years of freedom celebration month…
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the GNOME project we are having a very special Hug Day on Wednesday, August 22nd. We will be focusing on the collaboration between the Ubuntu and GNOME projects by working on the following topics.
That’s this Wednesday, […]
A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME’s tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20.
During the celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording their ten year history, and a commemorative cookery book with “Open Source” recipes contributed by GNOME community members from […]
“Software will increasingly compete on ease of use in the total software experience more than on features. The future will be more about being simple than about any other dimension. […] This is a classic case of experience changing perception and it’s got me to thinking about a seamless platform from server to desktop to […]
Shreyas noticed that the The 5th Wave’s June 17, 2007 strip includes a homage to GNOME! Rocking!
Update: Melissa points out that UserFriendly was pretty awesome on the 17th too.
Last Friday I completed the migration of GNOME Blogs (nicknamed ‘blogo’) to WordPress MU with an announcement to the GNOME community and a thank you to the WordPress community a couple of days later. The first post details some of the features we launched with.
But the best feature…?
Now anyone with a gnome.org, gtk.org or gimp.org […]
Jeff Waugh: “AI will surpass human intelligence after 2020.”
Alberto Ruiz: That’s the linux desktop year also!
Jeff Waugh: Ha ha ha… Of course, now that you work for sun, that’s not funny!
Alberto Ruiz: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I think Sun prefers a Linux desktop world than a Microsoft one.
Coolest thing […]
