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 History
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-Nemo version 1.0.0 was released in July 2012 along with version 1.6 of the Cinnamon reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012.
-It started as a fork of the GNOME file manager Nautilus v3.4 after the developers of the operating system Linux Mint considered that "Nautilus 3.6 is a catastrophe".
+Nemo started as a fork of the GNOME file manager Nautilus v3.4. Version 1.0.0 was released in July 2012 along with version 1.6 of Cinnamon,
+reaching version 1.1.2 in November 2012.
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 Developer Gwendal Le Bihan named the project "nemo" after Jules Verne's famous character Captain Nemo, who is the captain of the Nautilus.
 
 Features