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Newer page:	version 14	Last edited on Friday, September 9, 2005 7:36:31 am	by AristotlePagaltzis	Revert
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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 at a time made [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.

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-~~Much development on GNOME was undertaken~~ by ~~a company named~~ [Ximian], ~~set up~~ by GNOME ~~founder~~ MiguelDeIcaza ~~to develop GNOME commercially. Ximian was~~ purchased by [Novell]; most of ~~their commercial~~ code ~~has been set free~~ and the Ximian crew are now Novell's ~~Linux desktop~~ team.

+[GNOME] is the DesktopEnvironment of choice for business [Linux], adopted by the likes of [IBM] and SunMicrosystems. Much commercial software was developed for it 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 .