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Anyone remember a time before Ubuntu certainly also remember that although probably not the second most popular desktop Manager, too much share of the Linux desktop market keep GNOME. KDE was King and GNOME was a distant second. Then Ubuntu appeared and not only climbed his way to the top of the distribution game, but GNOME to placed. Polls in the last few years have shown its use increase up to the point that it often equalling or out-ranking KDE. But what is happening to GNOME, now Ubuntu 11.04 comes to included the appliance?

There are two elements which will give us a note. Is the first question developers help development how much fact Ubuntu GNOME? The answer is no significant amount. While much of the discussion at canonical happened over more upstream contribute very little evidence that you actually did exist. Matthew Garrett points out that 91% of the code is from Red Hat contributed and unsuitable anytime soon abandon this long-term strategy.Some Ubuntu developers find that the GNOME project wanted none of your ideas or code and that may very well true seems sein.Ob not offered or rejected, GNOME is largely by Red Hat and the loss of Ubuntu's support developed and use will affect much development.

The second aspect is that Ubuntu will be shipping the underlying framework and applications as the GNOME shell in repositories. For those who really want the familiar GNOME interface, it is removed a few clicks.

Those close to the GNOME project said, "we lost a distribution channel for GNOME shell, canonical will still be using and building with many GNOME technologies and work with the GNOME Foundation.""And we have all our significant technical resources working on GNOME shell and other GNOME technologies."

So, what happens to GNOME now that Ubuntu has effectively moved? not much seems to be the consensus to View1 will continue with business as usual forge.

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