 After January 13, 2009, those issues had been resolved and 3D support became standard starting with the 2.2 release.In reviewing gNewSense 3.0 in August 2013, Jesse Smith of DistroWatch noted that many of the applications provided, including OpenOffice.org 3, Debian's de-blobbed 2.6.32 Linux kernel (based on Linux-libre "tools"), Iceweasel 3.5 and GNOME 2.30 were quite out of date.Smith concluded this review with the following words