GNOME: The popular desktop environment designed for GNU/Linux distributions, celebrated 20 years of development and existence yesterday.
20 years ago (August 15, 1997), the GNOME Project was founded by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero. And the developers wanted to create an alternative desktop environment to KDE and other projects.
However, it took two years to release the first stable version, GNOME 1.0, in 1999. Since then, the GNOME Project has been very active and has released at least 33 stable versions, the latest being GNOME 3.24 “Portland”.
GNOME 3.24 has already been adopted by many popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as OpenSuSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu, and despite its recent release on March 22, development work never stops.
This is why we are waiting for the next major release of GNOME 3.26 “Manchester”, which has just entered Beta development and is expected to be released next month, on September 13, 2017.
Until then, the GNOME Project community and development team invites all GNOME friends and every Open Source community to celebrate GNOME's 20th anniversary.
“Celebrate 20 Years with the GNOME Foundation: visit the 20th Anniversary page to find a party – or even start your own,” the developers say.
“You can also support GNOME by making a donation or becoming a friend of GNOME.”.
On this occasion, we wish the GNOME Project a happy anniversary and look forward to seeing what's new with GNOME 3.26, which will be used as the default desktop for the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 and Fedora 27.
