Hi all,

It’s been some time that Gnome 3.0 is released and is used by many Gnome users. Some may want to test it and some may want to keep it and use it on regular basis as their main desktop, all is upto every one choice. For me, i have tested it from live cd’s but haven’t got time to install it and explore it more.

But no worries for openSUSE users specially 11.4, we have a very good and easy to follow guide on openSUSE wiki.

Follow this guide and you are good to go.

Good luck and enjoy!

And the news is that Gnome is OUT after long debates. It is a completely rewritten desktop, code base is not the same as Gnome 2. According Gnome project:

The GNOME 2 desktop had a long life, and parts of it became difficult to maintain over that period. As a result, continued releases of the entire GNOME 2 desktop was never a practical option for the GNOME Project, and several parts of the old GNOME 2 desktop will not receive new releases after GNOME 3 is released. The traditional GNOME 2 desktop will not disappear overnight, however: releases of GNOME 2 will continue to be supported by distributions for years to come.

Which make quite clear that it is a fresh feel after Gnome 2 with new features and beautiful design. I am downloading the openSUSE build ATM and will give it a go after downloading.

Check out a detail article at Linux journal.

Wana try it, get it from the Gnome3 site.

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Update: Last night i tried it with the openSUSE build Live CD for a while, and found it quite impressive. The other day i was testing Ubuntu 11.04 beta with Unity desktop, and found these both desktops 30% to 40% similar in the way they look, the way they operate the things etc etc. But both are worth a try. Check out the Gnome 3 screens from the Live CD i used.

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