I am using gnome-session-fallback, which fairly resembles GNOME2.
I typed the gnome-session --version command and here is the output:
$ gnome-session --version
gnome-session 3.6.0
My question is: Does that mean that it will get updates and bug fixes in the future or is the fallback session old and obsolete technology?
That output just shows the package version, and nothing else.
To get the idea of the current level of support for the fallback session, consider this:
The fallback session maintainer, Vincent Untz, has recently left Gnome to take the position of the OpenSuse chairman.
It's been announced, that the fallback mode will be droped from Gnome 3.8 onward.
That said, Gnome2 will still be supported, for quite some time, by the distros that default to it, most notably, RHEL and its derivatives (CentOS and Scientific Linux), as well as Debian 6, and, perhaps some other.
The point is, if you have the right hardware and like Gnome2, there is no reason not to use it for a long time to come.
