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GNOME Classic Fights to Win Users Back

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Feb 12, 2013

In the GNOME 3.7.5 development release announcement the words “more complete classic mode” piqued the interest of certain Linux writers and, fortunately for you, I don’t mean me. Users using Ubuntus 12.10 and 13.04 were treated to testing packages and Webupd8.org posted some pictures. After installing said packages, he said “a new ‘GNOME Classic’ session has showed up in the login screen,” but “this isn’t the old fallback session.

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