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Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-road dept.

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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  1. Re:Excellent by Kagetsuki · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stupid name? Cinnamon vs GNOME? Come to think about it all these years I've been telling people "I use GNOME", I wonder how that sounded to them. Maybe I should have been putting emphasis on the G or something and made it sound like a rapper name. "I use gee-nome dawg".

  2. I thought Gnome by CruelKnave · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . was already forked. Yeah. I'm pretty sure Gnome Shell "forked" it up proper.

  3. Re:Excellent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My mother overheard a conversation I was having about a certain linux distribution. After the conversation she asked "who is Debbie and why are you talking about her open sores?"

  4. Re:Awesome. by couchslug · · Score: 4, Funny

    "the thing feels like it's designed for tablets,"

    YOU WILL WORSHIP TABLETS DAMMIT and YOU WILL WANT A TABLETACEOUS INTERFACE on everything which is not a tablet!!!!

    Yours in Unity,
                                                The GNOME Foundation.

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