The History of GNOME

By Emmanuele Bassi

GNOME is made by people, same as history; and just like people, history can be complicated, repeating, funny, sad, and everything in between. This is my attempt at compiling an history of the GNOME pr... more

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How many episodes does The History of GNOME have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.

The History of GNOME episodes:

March 14, 2019 Episode 1.a: The GIMP Toolkit
A side episode! We’re going to take a look to GTK in its first major API cycle
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14min
February 24, 2019 Episode 2.a: Building GNOME
A side episode! Building GNOME is complicated; releasing GNOME is even worse. We’re going to see what tools GNOME developers used to build GNOME 2.
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12min
February 24, 2019 Episode 2.2: Release Day
The GNOME 2 release process meant re-evaluating everything that makes a desktop environment: from its design, to the design of all of its applications, to the release process, to the interaction of settings and preferences.
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16min
February 24, 2019 Episode 2.1: On Brand
A wild GTK major API change appears! It uses better text and icon rendering. It’s super effective! GNOME dons flame retardant pants. It’s not very effective!
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18min
February 24, 2019 Episode 2.0: Retrospective
A retrospective on GNOME 1.x, before we launch into the main narrative of GNOME 2; we’re going to look back at what GNOME 1 did right; what it did wrong; and what it meant in the larger context of the history of the project
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15min
February 24, 2019 Episode 1.c: Applications
A side episode! Early applications in the GNOME 1.x era
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11min
February 24, 2019 Episode 1.b: Bindings
A side episode! Language bindings in the early GNOME era take the front stage
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8min
February 24, 2019 Episode 1.5: End of the road
GNOME 1.4 gets released, and development work for GNOME 2 being in earnest; but things come crashing down once the Dot com bubble bursts, and GNOME loses an ally
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16min
February 24, 2019 Episode 1.4: Founding the Foundation
Exciting times for the GNOME project. The first GUADEC is held in Paris! The Foundation gets founded! Plus: CVS and Bugzilla!
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19min
February 24, 2019 Episode 1.3: Land of the bonobos
New companies form around GNOME! Ximian and Eazel work on making GNOME useful for corporate environments and casual users, and start shaping the technology stack with components for applications to use and reuse.
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15min

FAQs about The History of GNOME:

How many episodes does The History of GNOME have?

The podcast currently has 13 episodes available.