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[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 is mostly a gui infrastructure for writing applications to provide the Gnome windowing environment.
-Gnome is built on the Gimp
Toolkit [GTK]. With the recent release of Gnome 2, we're seeing more and more professional, easy to use Linux applications. Plus it's much faster now and you can make it look dead sexy.
+Gnome is built on the [GIMP]
Toolkit [GTK]. With the recent release of Gnome 2, we're seeing more and more professional, easy to use Linux applications. Plus it's much faster now and you can make it look dead sexy.
[Ximian], a company set up by the founder of the GNOME project to develop it commercially, have a customized version called XimianGnome you can download from their [web site|http://www.ximian.com/].
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+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, in some ways, 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.
See [KDE], DesktopEnvironment and LinuxOnTheDesktop.
Components of GNOME include [Pango], [GConf], [Nautilus]...
Want to make GNOME 2.2 work on [Debian] [Woody]? http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html
