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GNOME is one of the most popular environments. Major design changes with the 3.0 release sparked the creation of Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3), Unity (an alternative Gnome Desktop Session to GNOME Shell) and MATE (a fork of GNOME 2). KDE Plasma 5 (KDE5, KDE Plasma Workspaces, formerly K Desktop Environment or simply KDE) 1998-07-12
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Cinnamon-Settings, included since May 2013 (version 1.8 onwards), combines the functionality of GNOME-Control-Center with that of Cinnamon-Settings, and made it possible to manage and update applets, extensions, desklets, actions, and themes through Cinnamon-Settings. Gnome-Screensaver was also forked into what is now called Cinnamon-Screensaver.
1.2.3 [24] 2023-03-15 GPL-2.0-or-later: Metacity (GNOME 2) Compositing: C, C++ (GTK+) 2002-10 3.54.0 [25] 2024-10-05 GPL-2.0-or-later: Moksha (E17) Compositing: C: 2015-08-11 0.4.1 [26] 2023-07-23 Motif Window Manager (mwm) Stacking: C: 1989 2.3.8 [27] 2017-12-05 LGPL-2.1-or-later: Mutter (GNOME 3+/MeeGo) Compositing: C (Clutter) 2011-04 47.3 ...
Debian Unstable, known as "Sid", contains all the latest packages as soon as they are available, and follows a rolling-release model. [6]Once a package has been in Debian Unstable for 2–10 days (depending on the urgency of the upload), doesn't introduce critical bugs and doesn't break other packages (among other conditions), it is included in Debian Testing, also known as "next-stable".
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[94] [95] Debian, a Linux distribution that had historically used GNOME 2, switched to Xfce when GNOME 3 was released, but re-adopted GNOME 3 in time for the release of Debian 8 "Jessie". [96] Ubuntu switched from Unity to GNOME 3 with several extensions to resemble Unity, such as a persistent left application panel instead of a hidden dock and ...
The performance of Linux on the desktop has been a controversial topic; [8] for example in 2007 Con Kolivas accused the Linux community of favoring performance on servers. He quit Linux kernel development out of frustration with this lack of focus on the desktop, and then gave a "tell all" interview on the topic. [9]