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[Acronym] of __G__nu __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 and more. (AddToMe)
+[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.
-[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 customized version called XimianGnome
you can download from [their web site | http://www.ximian.com/].
+[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 [Ximian], a company set up by MiguelDeIcaza to develop it commercially, have a (now outdated)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]
See also:
* [KDE]
* DesktopEnvironment
* LinuxOnTheDesktop
