Linux Mint developers claim 40% increase in user base in just one month due to Gnome 2 they provide in Linux Mint. === In Linux Mint 11 we made the decision to keep Gnome 2.32. The traditional Gnome desktop, although it’s not actively developed by the Gnome development team anymore, is still by far the most popular desktop within the Linux community. As other distributions adopted new desktops such as Unity and Gnome 3, many users felt alienated and consequently migrated to Linux Mint. We recorded a 40% increase in a single month and we’re now quickly catching up with Ubuntu for the number #1 spot within the Linux desktop market. === http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851 In Linux Mint 12 they include the Gnome2' s fork, Mate desktop as well as a set of plugins for Gnome Shell that reverses some changes made in the user interface by Gnome3 team, known as LMDE (Linux Mint Desktop Extensions). The taskbar, main menu, multi-window interface will be back again. The recent statistics from DistroWatch shows that recent days Mint got more than twice hits than Ubuntu http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=1 suggesting popular interest. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org