"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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Member since:2005-07-07
yes another "me too" post, I used it with red hat 6 (I guess) it wowed me showing top lines of text files as text file icon, I said to myself that time
- this thing is something, light years ahead of windows
(year) later I removed windows 98 from my P2 240 MHz, 4GB HD, 96 RAM Toshiba laptop and installed red hat 8 and never turned back to windows... later I got P3 733 MHz, 120 GB HD, 192 RAM Compaq and installed red hat 9, skipped all Fedore to Ubuntu... then two years ago I upgraded my hardware to P3 3GHz, 120 GB (same old HD) 1 GB RAM, I got this computer only because I need vmware to run W2k which I was studying at school
me happy GNOME user
Member since:2005-07-07
We definately have come a long way since then. I have it still running on an old Pentium III with RH 6.2. Just recently upgraded the RH 6.2 to Gnome 2.18 and you can tell there's a big difference.
I also have Gnome running on the new fedora as well. Keep up the great work.
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2005-04-01
I remember using Gnome on Red Hat when it looked like that. It really has come a very long way!