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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Member since:2007-06-28
hahah. i started using gnome around then, too. i agree... i liked it better then, as well! for a while, it seemed like each new release too away features that i liked. oh, well... i've long since dropped heavy desktops for lighter wondow managers. i'm really digging openbox these days.
sometimes XFCE reminds me of what gnome *used* to feel like.
oh, nostalgia.
Member since:
2007-04-30
I remember using gnome when it looked that way as well...call me crazy but I kinda liked it better back then lol