Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 22:04 UTC
"We want to develop a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software." Those were the opening lines of Miguel De Icaza's email announcing the GNU Network Object Model Environment, better known as GNOME, exactly (in my timezone) ten years ago, on 15th August 1997. They have come a long way from this, to this.
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2006-01-17
Well, this isn't a "me too" post, as I'm a relative noob who's only been using Gnome since 2.0. But screenshots just like this of early Gnome were my first glimpses of Linux. Man, I thought it was the coolest looking desktop ever! Those icons, and all that stuff at the bottom. I didn't even know anything about the OS, I just knew I wanted it on my computer.
A humbling reminder to myself to not laugh at the current noobs who want Linux just so they can have spinning cubes and flaming windows.