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

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

  2. 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?"