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 Watch the Video! https://youtu.be/PxDELH497Ro Mini Browser Watch October 30, Mozilla announces the nightly Deb packages (https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/10/30/introducing-mozillas-firefox-nightly-deb-packages-for-debian-based-linux-distributions/) November 30, Mozilla announces the developer and beta Deb packages (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/11/firefox-developer-edition-and-beta-try-out-mozillas-deb-package/) Announcements This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 The History of Gnome The email in 1997 to start it all (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-August/msg00123.html) Development snapshot 0.13 announcement (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/1998-March/msg00002.html) GNOME 1.0 release (https://foundation.gnome.org/1999/03/03/gnome-1-0-released/) GUADEC (https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC) GNOME OG website (https://web.archive.org/web/20000407082920/http://www.gnome.org/) GNOME revamped website (https://web.archive.org/web/20000621134911/http://www.gnome.org/) HP's HP/UX and Sun's Solaris announce they would be using GNOME (https://www.computerworld.com/article/2596398/unix-vendors-adopt-gnome-desktop.html) as their default desktops. GNOME Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Foundation) GNOME 2.0 release (https://foundation.gnome.org/2002/06/26/gnome-2-0-released-desktop-environment-boasts-simpler-user-interface-and-a-host-of-powerful-developer-tools/) Ubuntu 4.10 ships GNOME 2.8 (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.html) GNOME no longer part of GNU (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-December/msg00055.html) GNOME was no longer an acronym. (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-April/msg00050.html) Gnome 3.0 arrives (https://foundation.gnome.org/2011/04/06/gnome-3-0-has-arrived/) Linus Torvalds noted (https://digitizor.com/linus-torvalds-ditches-gnome-for-xfce/) Linus Torvalds, originally critical, returned to using GNOME for his day to day work, but noted that (https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-switches-back-to-gnome-3-x-desktop/) Groupon, the couponing company, decided that they would make a tablet and name it... GNOME (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/s/groupon-gnome-legal-war-almost-080504914.html). Again, the target of litigation (https://www.zdnet.com/article/leave-gnome-alone-this-patent-troll-is-asking-for-trouble/) Rothschild Patent Imaging was stripped of its patent rights (https://blog.opensource.org/gnome-patent-troll-stripped-of-patent-rights/) Gnome 40 (https://forty.gnome.org/) The Gnome 40 announcement (https://foundation.gnome.org/2021/03/24/gnome-40-release/) The Gnome 45 announcement (https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/09/20/introducing-gnome-45/) Original GNOME introduction (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3139) (~99) The Evolution of the GNOME Project (http://turingmachine.org/files/papers/dmg_wosse2002add.pdf) Using GNOME gmc (https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=131217&seqNum=12) (GNOME Midnight Commander) "A Brief History of GNOME" Presentation Notes (https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/files/2017/07/A-Brief-History-of-GNOME-1.pdf) "A Brief History of GNOME" Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUmptI6O2w) GNOME 2.0 - 40 Release Notes (https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/) More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) Housekeeping Catch all the great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord or Lemmy. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) Next Time Some topics and feedback. 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