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by padraigm 5068 days ago
This is false. Unity is an alternative to Gnome-shell; it uses (sometimes patched versions of) the same underlying Gnome 3 libraries.
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sciurus 5067 days ago
Or it's true. GNOME doesn't present itself as a set of libraries, it presents itself as a desktop shell and set of applications.

http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/

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