LinuxPower: A First Look at GNOME 1.0 | Linux Today

LinuxPower: A First Look at GNOME 1.0

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 20, 1999

“Upon reading that, I was given new hope. I came home, booted
Linux, deleted all my old (beta) GNOME and Enlightenment
directories. I was too excited to worry about gtk, glib, and all
that. The result?”

“Amazing!”

“It does sum up GNOME. Not only did almost every trace of
instability go away, but the look and feel of the whole system got
better, the performance got better, and all-in-all, I was a much
happier Linuxite. Although the apps are snappy, I have to keep in
mind I’m running a Celeron 333 with 128MB RAM.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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