14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not a distribution known for its modern looks or for its bleeding edge software stack, but its developers have finally managed to get it up to speed, sort of.
One of the Red Hat developers, Denise Dumas, has given a rather large interview for TechTarget, in which he explains that they finally made a move onto GNOME 3.x. More precisely, to the GNOME classic part of that branch.
“We introduced a classic mode [to Fedora 19] which, if you're comfortable with Gnome 2, you're going to find classic mode a no-brainer.
“We think that people who are accustomed to Gnome 2 will use classic mode until they're ready to experiment with modern mode. Classic mode is going to be the default for RHEL 7, and we're in the final stages now. We're tweaking it and having people experiment with it. The last thing we want to do is disrupt our customers' workflows,” stated Denise Dumas, director of software engineering at Red Hat Inc.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been stuck with GNOME 2.x for ages, and it's nice to see that the developers have finally made the decision to update the operating system in a meaningful way.