Linux Mint 11 (Katya) with GNOME 3 Announced

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Clement Lefebvre has announced the code name for Linux Mint 11 and has stated that it will be using Gnome 3 but without the Gnome Shell as its desktop environment.

I’m excited for this announcement and am glad that Linux Mint is taking a conservative approach to the current desktop environment changes and developments. This announcement only reinforces my decision to migrate from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to the current Linux Mint releases.

With that said, I am excited to try all the new versions of desktop environments (XFCE, Unity, Gnome 3/Gnome Shell, KDE) that will be stable and in the main repositories by the time Linux Mint 11 releases, but I’m not in hurry for them to be set as the defaults and appreciate this moderate change at the moment.

Linux Mint has shown some very reasonable and rational decisions in the last couple months and I’m happy to continue to recommend them as my choice for desktop and laptop operating system.

Cheers all!


Posted: February 23rd, 2011
at 10:35am by daemox


Categories: News

Comments: 7 comments


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  • Ivan Mladenovic1975

    I,m using mint 10 Julia gnome works perfect !!! THANKS to dev. team.

  • http://www.lylebackenroth.com/blog/2011/05/01/the-direction-of-ubuntu-gnome-with-their-graphical-interfaces/ The direction of Ubuntu & Gnome with their graphical interfaces . . .

    [...] people over at Linux Mint (the second most popular Linux after the Ubuntu family) have stated that they will adopt Gnome 3, but without the Gnome 3 shell (which is the interface that is [...]

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    [...] have been some changes to the plans for Linux Mint 11 (Katya). Originally, Clem had indicated that Gnome 3 would be used without the Gnome Shell. However, now it looks as though Gnome 2.32 (the last stable version of Gnome 2, which was released [...]

  • Pwthomson

    I’m just a user and appreciate being able to drive the car and leave under the hood to the mechanics. I have some technical knowledge but prefer to just use the system. I moved to Ubuntu about 15 months ago from XP and loved it. I was able to do the minimum to get my printers etc going and google for fixes I needed and just do what they said in terminal. So far so good on my Netcbook, desktop, and laptop. The….Unity came along…..$#&*$# . I moved to Linux Mint to keep up with the latest software and remain in an environment I was comfortable with. having discovered LM I am in heaven and wish to  thank Ubuntu for forcing  me look around for another distro.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Pwthomson,

    Great story there. I’ve gone back and forth between the two myself a few times and am now back to Ubuntu (likely for good). I can definitely appreciate your perspective and desire to stick with the familiar though.

    Take care!

  • http://www.ainer.org/linux-mint-11-katya-preview-and-testing-version-released Linux Mint 11 (Katya) Preview and Testing Version Released! :

    [...] have been some changes to the plans for Linux Mint 11 (Katya). Originally, Clem had indicated that Gnome 3 would be used without the Gnome Shell. However, now it looks as though Gnome 2.32 (the last stable version of Gnome 2, which was released [...]

    


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