"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: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. 
Member since:2005-07-07
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2005-07-06
I second that. I remember using it back in 2000 on Red Hat and I loved it. Awesome to see how far it has come in only a few years. Best of luck on future releases. Keep up the competition between KDE and GNOME and there is no telling how far they will both go!