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/)
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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/)
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Next Time
Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the KDE Plasma Desktop Environment (https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/).
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