RealTime IT News  GNOME 3 finally released  From the 'This is
Not KDE 4' files:  For most of my life as Linux desktop user, I
ran KDE. Then along came KDE 4 and I freaked out and migrated to
GNOME.  GNOME 3 -- officially released today is a similar kind
of 'big break' for the GNOME project, but it's not in my opinion
the same nightmare the KDE 4 unleashed on its users.  The big
ticked item that should define GNOME 3 is the GNOME Shell
interface.  "The new GNOME Shell is an entire new user
experience that was designed from the ground up to improve the
usability of the desktop and giving both designers and
developers a quick way to improve the desktop and adapt the user
interface to new needs," Miguel de Icaza, one of GNOME's
founders said in a statement. "By tightly integrating Javascript
with the GNOME  platform, designers were able to create and
quickly iterate on creating an interface that is both pleasant
and exciting to use. I could not be happier with the results."
Ubuntu doesn't use GNOME Shell, though