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Maybe Torvalds wouldn’t whine about GNOME so much if it provided better support

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 4, 2012

It’s no secret that Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds has issues with the GNOME desktop. Late last week Torvalds made his displeasure known again, this time taking aim squarely at the GNOME Shell Extensions web site. The site, which provides “mall pieces of code written by third party developers that modify the way GNOME works,” according to the site’s About page, drew Torvalds’ ire after he decided to update an older Fedora 14 machine to the current edition, Fedora 17. From there, things did not go well.
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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