GParted News Item 254

The GParted team is proud to announce the twentieth anniversary of GParted.

The first public release of GParted was version 0.0.3 on August 26th, 2004. Over the past 20 years, much has happened. Following are some statistics:

• Over 282 people have contributed to GParted
• Available in over 60 different language translations
• Included in many GNU/Linux distributions
• Used in over 250 countries around the world
• Downloaded over 34 million times from SourceForge alone

To mark the occasion we asked a question and following are responses shared by some key contributors.

Why is GParted important to you?

Steven Shiau - This is the way I contribute to the FOSS world. I have learned many things from the maintenance of GParted live, and would like to keep learning from that.

Emmanuel Soundias - I met GParted soon after knowing Linux O.S. It was the 3rd year of GParted when I entered the team.

Along with the obvious utilitarian character for my personal computing needs, it allows me to help friends and family on a special non trivial subject.

GParted has been for me the initial step into the Free Open-Source software world. Although partitioning isn’t an every day’s subject, it helped me in some degree to better understand the software-hardware interaction.

Curtis Gedak - GParted enables me to follow my desire to contribute to the Free Software community.

Twenty years is a long time for a volunteer project to stay active.

I am proud of our team. I am proud of the graphical partition editor that we enhance, maintain and support.

Curtis