With all the ongoing debate over desktop environments here in the Linux blogosphere, there’s never any shortage of discussion of the GNOME project, even on an ordinary day. Last Tuesday, however, was no ordinary day — at least, if a certain blog post was anything to go by. “The idea of GNOME OS has been around for a couple of years,” wrote GNOME UX designer Allan Day in said post. “The aspirations that are driving this process include things like providing a better experience for application developers, …” Erm, what was that, you say? A GNOME OS? 
