GNOME Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Beta Release of Upcoming GNOME 43 Desktop
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GNOME Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Beta Release of Upcoming GNOME 43 Desktop
As expected, GNOME 43 Beta is packed with lots of goodies, including more improvements to WebExtensions support and a new “Take Screenshot” context menu entry for the Epiphany web browser, the ability for the GNOME Boxes virtual machine manager to fetch recommended operating systems from remote address, WWAN 5G connection support to Control Center’s Cellular page and support for privacy screens in the Display page.
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There's no place like GNOME: Project hits 25, going on 43
The two original developers behind the GNOME project started work 25 years ago, and the 43rd version of their brainchild is nearly here.
The GNOME project is celebrating its quarter century, not long behind that of the KDE project, whose version 5.23 was its corresponding birthday last year. They're close for a reason, but it's ancient history in Linux terms.
As we've covered in some depth before, KDE uses the Qt toolkit, which is written in and designed for use with C++. When the KDE project started, Qt wasn't GPL. As a result, Red Hat refused to bundle KDE with its distro (which is how Mandrake Linux got started – it was Red Hat Linux, but bundled with KDE).
A second issue is that Linux is mostly written in C, just like Unix before it. Some traditional Unix types remain suspicious of C++ and prefer to avoid it. The result was GNOME – a desktop written in C, using the all-GPL GTK toolkit. For years thereafter, if you installed Red Hat Linux, you got GNOME.
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GNOME 43: Top New Features and Release Wiki
An extensive feature analysis of the GNOME 43 desktop environment bringing impactful changes to your day-to-day needs and workflow.