GNOME can be downloaded and installed as a part of a distribution, which also include many GNOME applications. Here’s how you can start using GNOME 3 today.

Try GNOME 3.4 – Live Images Available Here

To write the image to a USB drive:

• Insert the drive (any data it contains will be erased!)
• Run dmesg in a terminal: this will give you the location of the stick in square brackets, such as sdb
• To write the image, run sudo dd if=GNOME-3.4.iso of=/dev/DRIVE bs=8M conv=fsync, replacing DRIVE with the location
• Once the write operation has finished, you can reboot with the USB drive inserted (you may have to specify the boot device on startup)

Distributions

Some of the most popular distributions ship GNOME 3 as part of their next releases.

GNOME 3 can also be used through many other distributions, including Arch Linux and Debian. Check out their websites for more details.

Get the code!

GNOME’s software is Free Software: all our code is available for download and can be freely modified and redistributed. There are several ways to get our code:

• Browse the development code
• Download the code for our latest release
• Use the build tool