GNOME: The popular desktop environment designed for GNU / Linux distributions, closed yesterday 20 years of growth and existence.
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 with environment for KDE and other projects.
However, it took two years to release the first stable release, GNOME 1.0, in 1999. Since then, the GNOME Project has been very active, releasing at least 33 fixed releases, most recently GNOME 3.24 "Portland".
GNOME 3.24 has already been adopted by many popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as OpenSuSE, the Fedora and Ubuntu, and despite its recent release on March 22, development work never stops.
That's why we're waiting for the next big release of GNOME 3.26 "Manchester", which has just entered Beta and is expected to release next month, September 13, 2017.
Until then, the community and team development of the GNOME Project invites all friends of GNOME and every Open Source community to celebrate the 20th anniversary of GNOME.
"Celebrate 20 Years with the GNOME Foundation: Visit the 20th Birthday Page to Find a Party - or Even Start Your Own", developers report.
"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 desktop default for the upcoming Ubuntu 17.10 and Fedora 27.
