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