Just Installed Debian Linux

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 11/12/2011 02:28 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 12 November 2011 13:11, R S V Reddy<ubuntu.bkn1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>> The advantage is that Gnome 2 is no longer being developed, so Ubuntu
>>> cannot continue to use it.
>> Is it really like that?
> Gnome team will no longer work on v2 but that has been forked to a new
> entity called Mate and there might be hope for current Gnome users.
> Unity users on the other hand...
>

I wouldn't place my bets on the success of Mate:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/08/gnome-2-forked/