While on one hand, Canonical is touting Unity, this community effort brings back Gnome, an environment that most Ubuntu users are familiar with.

With this release of Cinnamon, the API and the desktop are fully stable. However, Cinnamon is not the only product that the Mint team has in plan. They want to build a complete desktop environment ecosystem with themes, applets, extensions, user ratings and comments.

Cinnamon is still in alpha stage, but it carries the features that we saw in MGSE. It is based on the Gnome shell 3.2.1 and with Cinnamon, Linux Mint will bring something that competes with modern desktop environments like Unity, without compomising on usability.

The GNOME Project releases 3.2 as a major overhaul consisting of small changes.

The GNOME 3 website was launched today to bring you all the updates and eventually releases, for the GNOME 3 project

The next release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 11.10, will have Qt applications and libraries as part of Ubuntu CDs and default installs

Even though Compiz has no place in GNOME Shell, Canonical has decided that it will use Compiz in Unity for Ubuntu 11.04.

The Gnome Documentation Team is using Mallard to rewrite the complete help and user guide for Gnome to get users to the topic they are looking for instantly.

The guys over there at GNOME have come up with a amazing mockup for the System Status Area. The mockup is based on the color black, which is going to be the default color of GNOME Shell.

OpenOffice 3.2 was released about a month ago. It has many improvements over the previous versions including faster startup, better compatibility with MS Office etc. In this article, we show you hou how you can install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala from PPA.

The Gnome 3 desktop for Linux is planned to be released in early 2010. But you can experience it in Ubuntu Karmic koala through Gnome 3 Shell. We will show you how you can try out all the features of Gnome 3 though Gnome 3 Shell.

Read this tutorial to transform Ubuntu (Gnome) into Windows XP Desktop, using a single script

Changing the look of your Gnome Desktop can be quite cumbersome. The best way to do it is by using a tool called gnome-art-ng.