modern distro with gnome2?

[snowpine]

Give Ubuntu a try; the new Unity desktop environment fixes most of the usability flaws in Gnome 2. Highly recommended!

[buzzingrobot]

Why so eager to stick with the past? Try xubuntu...

XFCE is 17 years old.

[ManamiVixen]

That's dosen't matter... XFCE, like all actively developed desktops get updates and new features. So XFCE 4.10 is new as it was released a couple of months ago.

[fuduntu]

I'll check it out.
Ive been using the latest fuduntu, an I really like the look, but the packages are dated mostly around Fedora Core 14. Fuduntu isnt supporting gtk3, and ive found the a frustrating lack of packages, or modern package support.
But the look, modern kernel, and libc6 >=2.15, have made some features work very well. I wish they were at FC18 for the packages tough.

Are you sure about that?

[andrew@builder RPMS]$ ls | grep fc14 | wc -l
6665
[andrew@builder RPMS]$ ls | grep fu201[23] | wc -l
19201



There aren't very many FC14 packages remaining in use today, but there definitely are some. We are at or past Fedora 18 for a very large number of packages. We aren't compatible with FC18 mostly because of systemd.