Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Sep 2012 20:44 UTC
"Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 3.6, the latest version of the popular free desktop, as well as the GNOME developer platform. GNOME 3.6 is the third major update of GNOME 3. It builds on the foundations that we have laid with the previous 3.x releases and offers a greatly enhanced experience. The exciting new features and improvements in this release include a new login experience, integrated input methods, a refresh of the message tray, support for more online accounts, improved accessibility, and many more."
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RE[2]: GNOME 3 as a productive UI
by bornagainenguin on Tue 2nd Oct 2012 19:28
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zima pondered...
It's because of Unity that Ubuntu just started to dig its grave
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To put it in words that those who've been around the Alternate operating Systems scene a while would understand, Canonical's "Unity" is the equivalent of Be's infamous "focus shift" shortly before it went under.
Worse actually, because their Gnome 2.xx desktop was becoming the standard Linux desktop for many users and their "focus shift" has led to them sacrificing existing users in exchange for potential users.
--bornagainpenguin
Edited 2012-10-02 19:28 UTC
RE[3]: GNOME 3 as a productive UI
by zima on Fri 5th Oct 2012 23:59
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Yeah, yeah, so are the claims of some loud pundits, largely of the kind who praise Mint or increase its meaningless score on Distrowatch ...but what they claim is not what's actually happening
Now, reliable stats are hard to come by, however there happens to be one source of them that is certainly much more illustrative than Distrowatch - proportions of hits on all Wikimedia services: http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2012-08/SquidRepor...
August stats show almost a billion of them from Ubuntu, 959 million to be exact.
Meanwhile, the supposed alternatives stealing the momentum from Ubuntu hardly register - in particular, Mint has 11.3 M, two orders of magnitude less.
But wait, what about trends, you say? Let's check out the beginning of the year ( http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2012-01/SquidRepor... )
Ubuntu 947 million, Mint 18.9 million ...yeah ( actually, all notable distros lost number of hits in that half a year ...except for Ubuntu, which rose)
As far as very large portion of desktop Linux users are concerned, it seems that Unity is becoming the standard Linux desktop; and overall seems to work out rather fine. It certainly doesn't look like Ubuntu is among the distros which might have starter to dig their graves...
Edited 2012-10-06 00:18 UTC
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