Fedora helps Mozilla and plans a Cinnamon Spin

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Each year Google sponsors computer programming students from around the world to work on open source projects. The program, called Google's Summer of Code, gives students an opportunity to work on real world solutions and gain experience while open source projects gain new features and bug fixes. This year the Mozilla organization did not receive any of Google's sponsored positions. However, the Fedora Project obtained multiple sponsored positions. In an effort to support the Mozilla foundation, Fedora will be directing one of their students to work on Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail application.

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Fans of the Cinnamon desktop will be pleased to know the Fedora community is working on a new spin which will use Cinnamon as the default graphical interface. The proposal for the new spin states, "Cinnamon is a Linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. The desktop layout is similar to GNOME 2. The underlying technology is forked from GNOME Shell. The emphasis is put on making users feel at home and providing them with an easy to use and comfortable desktop experience." The new spin is expected to be released with Fedora 23, probably near the end of 2015.

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