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Just a week or so after revealing that Linux Mint 12 would be taking a hybrid approach to introducing GNOME 3, the project behind the free operating system on Saturday announced the debut of a release candidate of the software.

If you're one of the many people that is less than satisfied with Ubuntu's Unity desktop, don't worry. You can opt for GNOME 3 instead by installing it in Ubuntu 11.04.

Recent remarks and comments in the news have this blogger wondering: can we focus on what's important in the open source community?

GNOME creator Miguel de Icaza embraces open source but doesn't reject proprietary technology.

The future of the Linux desktop took a dramatic new turn this morning during Mark Shuttleworth's keynote address at the Ubuntu Developer Summit. In that talk, the founder of Canonical and the Ubuntu distribution outlined plans to make Unity, the user interface currently used on Ubuntu Netbook Edition, the default user interface for the Ubuntu Desktop Edition, beginning with the Ubuntu 11.04 release.

Over the weekend, Canonical detractor Greg DeKoenigsberg issued an apology for the tone of his rants about Canonical's low contributions to GNOME. In doing so, he showed real class, while maintaining his original stance.

Open core might raise some eyebrows, but the fact remains there are few ways to inject funding into the open source ecosystem.

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