Wed, 15 Aug 2007

Ten years of GNOME

Ten years ago, Miguel de Icaza announced the “GNU Network Object Model Environment” project, an attempt to fix a dependency on a non-free library for free desktops.

Today, GNOME is a large, healthy and fun project with a very steady mission and personality. Congratulations to everyone who made it possible!

23:07 | [] | # | (comments: 6)

I think your presentation of Miguels mission statement is misleading. When Miguel started, the GNUstep environment was already there and not requiring any "non-free library for free desktops", not to mention the various other attempts to build such libraries (WindowMaker springs to mind).

Posted by Holger at Thu Aug 16 00:40:54 2007

And at age 10 I hope Gnome is now mature enough that we can drop that bloody contrived acronym.

Posted by Alan Horkan at Thu Aug 16 03:14:25 2007

An interesting read:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/01/gnome_to_be_based/

Posted by Weeber at Thu Aug 16 05:43:03 2007

Alan, totally! The acronym is awful, but I still want to type GNOME, not Gnome. :)

Posted by Jordi at Thu Aug 16 13:49:50 2007

If you want to shout out GNOME go ahead, but as someone interested in usability I'll stick with the easier way and type Gnome.  ;)

Posted by Alan at Sat Aug 18 04:03:46 2007

Congrats! GO GNOME, GO!

Posted by simkin at Sat Aug 18 17:32:16 2007