Gnome version of mint 16?
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No it has it's own stack.
Code:
$ rpm -qa cinnam\* cjs muffin nemo\* |sort
cinnamon-2.0.14-7.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-control-center-2.0.9-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-control-center-filesystem-2.0.9-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-desktop-2.0.4-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-desktop-devel-2.0.4-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-screensaver-2.0.3-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-session-2.0.5-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-settings-daemon-2.0.8-1.fc21.x86_64
cinnamon-translations-2.0.2-1.fc21.noarch
cjs-2.0.0-1.fc21.x86_64
muffin-2.0.5-1.fc21.x86_64
nemo-2.0.8-4.fc21.x86_64
nemo-devel-2.0.8-4.fc21.x86_64
nemo-extensions-2.0.8-4.fc21.x86_64
nemo-fileroller-2.0.0-0.3.git6c86726.fc21.x86_64
nemo-pastebin-2.0.0-0.3.git6c86726.fc21.x86_64
nemo-preview-2.0.0-0.3.git6c86726.fc21.x86_64
nemo-python-2.0.0-0.3.git6c86726.fc21.x86_64
nemo-terminal-2.0.0-0.3.git6c86726.fc21.x86_64
I'm no expert so hopefully this isn't too far wrong but my understanding is...
Cinnamon is a fork of the Gnome Shell so at a very basic level it uses the underlying Gnome code. But it is not the same as Gnome itself.
When Gnome moved from version 2 to version 3 many people didn't like it and there have been a few spin offs to try to get back to a traditional desktop look and feel. For example Mate was forked from the original Gnome 2 to keep the original look and new features have been added. Cinnamon was forked from Gnome 3 to keep the latest version of underlying code but the older desktop look has been added back again.
Gnome 2 = Traditional desktop look and feel
Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell = Newer and looks less like a traditional desktop
Mate = Forked from Gnome 2 to try to keep the original look
Cinnamon = forked from Gnome 3/Shell and the look changed back to a traditional desktop
** In the open source community a "fork" is the term used for when a copy of software is taken and then it is changed to go in a different direction than the original codebase.
Cinnamon is a fork of the Gnome Shell so at a very basic level it uses the underlying Gnome code. But it is not the same as Gnome itself.
When Gnome moved from version 2 to version 3 many people didn't like it and there have been a few spin offs to try to get back to a traditional desktop look and feel. For example Mate was forked from the original Gnome 2 to keep the original look and new features have been added. Cinnamon was forked from Gnome 3 to keep the latest version of underlying code but the older desktop look has been added back again.
Gnome 2 = Traditional desktop look and feel
Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell = Newer and looks less like a traditional desktop
Mate = Forked from Gnome 2 to try to keep the original look
Cinnamon = forked from Gnome 3/Shell and the look changed back to a traditional desktop
Code:
Gnome 2 --> Gnome 3
| |
| +--> Forked to Cinnamon
|
+---------------> Forked to Mate** In the open source community a "fork" is the term used for when a copy of software is taken and then it is changed to go in a different direction than the original codebase.