The founder of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, had shared his opinions and views on the state of Linux on the desktop and “what killed the Linux desktop”. It’s quite an interesting read and many of his points seem fairly valid. The thing that striked me the most was in respect to his point on various …
The inventory of the previous chapter is described in a manifesto dated 1996 Matthias Ettrich grown in response to base the KDE and Miguel de Icaza founded the GNOME project to the next year,
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