Episode 4:10: GNOME in the Home

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Coming up in this episode

• The Browser Watch Leftovers
• The History of GNOME
• And Why Gnome is the best desktop
• And a little holiday break

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:29 Riding the Lightning
16:45 GNOME History: Pre-GNOME
23:01 GNOME History: GNOME 1.x
25:58 GNOME History: GNOME 2.x
33:22 GNOME History: GNOME 3.x
41:31 GNOME History: GNOME 40 and Beyond
48:01 How'd GNOME Go?
1:15:39 Next Time: Topics & KDE
1:26:18 Stinger

Watch the Video!
https://youtu.be/PxDELH497Ro

Mini Browser Watch

• October 30, Mozilla announces the nightly Deb packages
• November 30, Mozilla announces the developer and beta Deb packages

Announcements

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The History of Gnome

• The email in 1997 to start it all
• Development snapshot 0.13 announcement
• GNOME 1.0 release
• GUADEC
• GNOME OG website
• GNOME revamped website
• HP's HP/UX and Sun's Solaris announce they would be using GNOME as their default desktops.
• GNOME Foundation
• GNOME 2.0 release
• Ubuntu 4.10 ships GNOME 2.8
• GNOME no longer part of GNU
• GNOME was no longer an acronym.
• Gnome 3.0 arrives
• Linus Torvalds noted
• Linus Torvalds, originally critical, returned to using GNOME for his day to day work, but noted that
• Groupon, the couponing company, decided that they would make a tablet and name it... GNOME.
• Again, the target of litigation
• Rothschild Patent Imaging was stripped of its patent rights
• Gnome 40
• The Gnome 40 announcement
• The Gnome 45 announcement
• Original GNOME introduction (~99)
• The Evolution of the GNOME Project
• Using GNOME gmc (GNOME Midnight Commander)
• "A Brief History of GNOME" Presentation Notes
• "A Brief History of GNOME" Video
• GNOME 2.0 - 40 Release Notes

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Next Time

Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.

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