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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.
+[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)
-Gnome
is mostly a gui infrastructure
for writing applications
to provide
the Gnome windowing environment
.
+[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 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
.
+For a comparison of
[GNOME
] vs [KDE] development styles
, see [http://www
.illusionary
.com/GNOMEvKDE.html]
-[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/].
-
-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
+See also
:
+*
[KDE]
+*
DesktopEnvironment
+*
LinuxOnTheDesktop
