A sneak peak at GNOME 3
Recently I did what every good technical writer does – spent a lot of time getting something working that has yet to be released in order to test it out and write about it. This “it†was gnome-shell. GNOME Shell will be the basis of the newest release from GNOME to arrive sometime near the middle-to-end of this year. I have to say, I'm really impressed. Why am I so impressed? Because it seems that the good developers of GNOME have finally re-invented the desktop.
Now I will warn you that I am a fan of GNOME. I understand that KDE did the same thing when they re-invented their take on the desktop. The difference is – the innovation from KDE seemed more like a “retooling with added featuresâ€. GNOME 3 will be a milestone for the desktop. I have head some people say it is too much like the “iPhone interfaceâ€. To those I have to say “use it firstâ€. But no matter where you stand, GNOME 3 is going to be different, and this article will show you how to install it and give you a first glance.
Recently I did what every good technical writer does – spent a lot of time getting something working that has yet to be released in order to test it out and write about it. This “it†was gnome-shell. GNOME Shell will be the basis of the newest release from GNOME to arrive sometime near the middle-to-end of this year. I have to say, I'm really impressed. Why am I so impressed? Because it seems that the good developers of GNOME have finally re-invented the desktop.
Now I will warn you that I am a fan of GNOME. I understand that KDE did the same thing when they re-invented their take on the desktop. The difference is – the innovation from KDE seemed more like a “retooling with added featuresâ€. GNOME 3 will be a milestone for the desktop. I have head some people say it is too much like the “iPhone interfaceâ€. To those I have to say “use it firstâ€. But no matter where you stand, GNOME 3 is going to be different, and this article will show you how to install it and give you a first glance.
