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-[Acronym] of __G__nu
__N__etwork __O__bject __M__odel __E__nvironment.
+An
[Acronym] for [GNU]
__N__etwork __O__bject __M__odel __E__nvironment.
-[The GNOME project|http://www.gnome.org/] (pronounced with a hard "G") is a collaborative software project building a complete user-friendly graphic user interface ([GUI])
entirely with free software
components. [GNOME] is a [GUI] for [GNU]/[Linux]/[Unix] systems. [GNOME]'s
most apparent distinction is that it's built on the GimpToolKit. Components of [GNOME] include [GConf], [Nautilus], a virtual filesystem
layer (gnome-vfs), and more.
+[The GNOME project | http://www.gnome.org/] (pronounced with a hard "G") is a collaborative software project building a complete,
user-friendly DesktopEnvironment
entirely from FreeSoftware
components. Its
most apparent distinction is that it's built on the GimpToolKit, which is licensed under [LGPL] (more business-friendly than [KDE]'s [Qt], which is available under either [GPL] or as commercial payware)
. Components of [GNOME] include [GConf], [Nautilus], a virtual FileSystem
layer (gnome-vfs), and more.
-[GNOME] is the Desktop
of choice for business [Linux] and has been
adopted by the likes of [IBM] and SunMicrosystems:, this is partly due to the
[LGPL
]'d [GTK2] core
, which makes
[GNOME] more
[Free
] than the competing
[KDE
], and at the same time cheaper (developers don't need to fork out to TrollTech for a non-
[GPL
] version
of [Qt]) to develop commercial software for.
[Ximian], a company set up by MiguelDeIcaza to develop it commercially, have a (now outdated) customized version called XimianDesktop you can download from [their web site | http://www.ximian.com/].
-
-For a peculiarly skewed
and old-fashioned comparison of
[GNOME
] vs
[KDE
] development styles, see [http://www
.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html]
+[GNOME] is the DesktopEnvironment
of choice for business [Linux],
adopted by the likes of [IBM] and SunMicrosystems. Much development on it was funded by
[Ximian
], a company founded by
[GNOME] initiator MiguelDeIcaza and later purchased by
[Novell
].
[Novell
] have set
[Free
] most
of [Ximian]'s code
, and the
[Ximian
] crew are now
[Novell
]'s team for LinuxOnTheDesktop
.
See also:
* [KDE]
-* DesktopEnvironment
-* LinuxOnTheDesktop
* GnomeNotes
+* GnomeColourTheme
