GNOME Turns 10-Years-Old

If you can find a Linux user who has never used the GNOME desktop environment, please let me know. Indeed, it’s become incredibly popular in the ten years it’s been around, thanks to it’s clean design and simplistic usage. One of the reasons GNOME has succeeded is due to the emphasis on keeping things simple and employing an identical look between all of the base applications. One thing is for sure, GNOME may still be a young DE, but it’s certainly matured a great deal.

“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.

Source: OSNews