Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3

An anonymous reader writes "Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint founder, has forked Gnome 3 and named it Cinnamon. Mint has experimented with extensions to Gnome in the latest release of their operating system, but in order to make the experience they are aiming for really work, they needed an actual fork. The goal of this fork is to use the improved Gnome 3 internals and put a more familiar Gnome 2 interface on it."

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And I care because ..?

[wdef]

Seriously. On Linux I consider Fluxbox overfeatured and enjoy using a fast light desktop and a terminal. If I want desktop bells and whistles and bling or for officey work with spreadsheets and such, I use Mac OSX, though I can still do most of that on a light desktop.

Re:GNOME has always been fucked up.

[mrmeval]

KDE was the first to drool the reduced feature mantra before guhnome. It appears however that guhnome has drank Jim's special krewl aid and are doomed.

Linux Mint is not as functional as many claim it is not as feature laden or stable as very old KDE or Gnome before the idiots took charge.

I will just run my current version until I have to find something that might work. I would not want to use an MS product unless the entire Linux phenomena continues to collapse from delusional developers.

I don't understand the abhorrent removal of features and configurability. Ubuntu went so far as to go to the source code of X and rip out some configuration options.