Will Fedora 17 'Beefy Miracle' get Cinnamon? | Linux Today

Will Fedora 17 ‘Beefy Miracle’ get Cinnamon?

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Feb 17, 2012

“The upcoming Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle release is likely to be
one of the most feature packed Fedora Linux releases in years.

One feature that I’d like to see in it, is the Cinnamon
desktop.

Cinnamon was started by Linux Mint and has since found its’ way
to multiple distro’s repositories. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t
quite yet landed in anything official for Fedora. Cinnamon is a
response to user demands for something other than Unity or GNOME
Shell on top of a GNOME 3 base.


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SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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