Testing the Gnome 2.30 Release Candidate

“If Gnome developers are to be believed, the desktop of the
future arrived last week when the release candidate for Gnome
2.30–which could become Gnome 3.0–was made available.
My CPU needed a workout, so I recently compiled the new desktop and
gave it a run. Here’s a look at the desktop environment
that–like it or not–may soon be coming to a computer
near you.

“Although there’s no official word on when Gnome 3 will become
the default desktop environment in Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth
suggested last summer that the October 2010 release, or Ubuntu
10.10, would be a likely target.”

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