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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2006-02-01
I know a lot of people like to knock Gnome for its so-called "dumbed down" approach, and for the perceived inferiority of GTK compared to Qt. But I don't care: it's by far my favourite desktop environment, and I wouldn't be without it. It's simple, clean and easy to use, and I love it.
So bravo to the Gnome devs. Here's to the next 10 years!