GNOME 3 released and caretakers in an interesting mixture of iOS and OS X

by Sebastian Anthony on April 7, 2010 at 06: 40 AM GNOME 3, after more than two years of development, has been released into the wild. GNOME 3 is not only a logical successor for GNOME 2: it is a whole new project, started from scratch, creating a "totally new, modern desktop designed for today's users and technology."

The best way to check out GNOME 3 new features--and it has plenty of new features – is to run a live version of openSUSE or Fedora, or simply go over to GNOME 3 site and look at the (quite reasonably) introductory videos. If you want a synopsis, here it is: GNOME 3 similar to Mac OS X, with a healthy vaniljsockret of iOSesqueness for good measure, but are nonetheless still somehow an underlying sense of Linux.

The overall aesthetic is very simple, very elegant, and despite the fact that one of the fashion, it is enough with rounded corners, too. The most important extension is workflow-wise, the addition of an app-launcher-cum-alt-tab screen, where you can launch apps or flip through open Windows. For a complete list of new features and changes, please check the GNOME 3 release notes.

Although GNOME 3 officially started, it is not actually all releases for existing, stable Linux Distros--it is a live CD/USB slides, or Ubuntu users must wait for the launch or 11 for a GNOME 3 PPA, but is interrupted in process. Fedora users must wait for the May 24 release of Fedora 15. If you feeling crazy, you can of course always build GNOME 3 from source. Tags: desktop manager, DesktopManager, fedora, gnome, gnome 3, Gnomeprojektet, Gnome3, GnomeProject, linux, opensuse, ubuntu, window managers, WindowManager

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