> Da fuq? Ximian Desktop != Gnome Desktop. Ximian was a gnome enhancement and gave birth to mono and evolution, which was then acquired by Novell...who then later switched their default desktops to KDE. Go figure. ;)
that is a radical reinterpretation of the history of Ximian.
Ximian — nee Helix Code, nee International GNOME Support — was a company that worked on supporting GNOME and providing an integrated GNOME desktop for corporate users. it got acquired by Novell, and kept working on corporate UX, especially when it came to Evolution and OpenOffice and integration of Linux/GNOME in a Windows network. as a side project, the Novell-Ximian team worked on Mono, a reimplementation of the C# runtime and core libraries.
after the Novell buy-out, the team got spun off into its own company, Xamarin.
the Wikipedia page on Xamarin is okay-ish, in terms of references.
Novell, in the meantime, acquired SUSE, which was making a distribution that supported KDE and GNOME. to be fair, SUSE is actually supporting GNOME really well as a first class citizen, so they didn't "switch".
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Date: 2014-01-21 05:30 pm (UTC)that is a radical reinterpretation of the history of Ximian.
Ximian — nee Helix Code, nee International GNOME Support — was a company that worked on supporting GNOME and providing an integrated GNOME desktop for corporate users. it got acquired by Novell, and kept working on corporate UX, especially when it came to Evolution and OpenOffice and integration of Linux/GNOME in a Windows network. as a side project, the Novell-Ximian team worked on Mono, a reimplementation of the C# runtime and core libraries.
after the Novell buy-out, the team got spun off into its own company, Xamarin.
the Wikipedia page on Xamarin is okay-ish, in terms of references.
Novell, in the meantime, acquired SUSE, which was making a distribution that supported KDE and GNOME. to be fair, SUSE is actually supporting GNOME really well as a first class citizen, so they didn't "switch".