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GPL-2.0. Website. projects .linuxmint .com /cinnamon /. Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, which was originally based on GNOME 3, but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions. The development of Cinnamon began by the Linux Mint team as the result of the April 2011 ...
GNOME 2. GNOME 2 is the second major release of the GNOME desktop environment. Building upon the release of GNOME 1, development of GNOME 2 focused on a greater design-oriented approach that simplified and standardized elements of the environment. It also introduced modern font and image rendering, with improved accessibility and ...
Desktop environment. In computing, a desktop environment ( DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell. The desktop environment was seen mostly on personal computers until ...
Its succession as the ongoing focus of The GNOME Project was the impetus for the fork of GNOME 2 known as the MATE desktop environment as well as the creation of the Cinnamon desktop environment, which follows more traditional desktop metaphor conventions. The first adoption of GNOME 3 in a major Linux distribution was version 15 of Fedora ...
Operating system. Unix-like, Unix. Type. Desktop environment. License. GPLv2+, LGPLv2+. Website. mate-desktop .org. MATE ( / ˈmɑːteɪ /) [ 4 ] is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems such as BSD, and illumos operating systems. [ 5 ][ 6 ]
GNOME 1 (1999) GNOME was started on 15 August 1997 [ 9] by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena [ es] as a free software project to develop a desktop environment and applications for it. [ 15] It was founded in part because the K Desktop Environment, which was growing in popularity, relied on the Qt widget toolkit which used a proprietary software ...
Adwaita is the design language of the GNOME desktop environment. As an implementation, it exists as the default theme and icon set of the GNOME Shell and Phosh, and as widgets for applications targeting usage in GNOME. Adwaita first appeared in 2011 with the release of GNOME 3.0 as a replacement for the design principles used in Clearlooks, [ 2 ...
An official derivative of Ubuntu using the Cinnamon desktop environment. [11] Ubuntu Kylin: An official derivative aimed at the Chinese market. Ubuntu MATE: An official derivative of Ubuntu using MATE, a desktop environment forked from the now-defunct GNOME 2 code base, with an emphasis on the desktop metaphor. [12] Ubuntu Server