GNOME (pronounced /ɡəˈnoʊm/) is a desktop environment—a graphical user interface which runs on top of a computer operating system —composed entirely of free and open source software. It is an international project that includes creating software development frameworks, selecting application software for the desktop, and working on the programs which manage application launching, file handling, and window and task management.
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GNOME (pronounced /ɡəˈnoʊm/) is a desktop environment—a graphical user interface which runs on top of a computer operating system —composed entirely of free and open source software. It is an international project that includes creating software development frameworks, selecting application software for the desktop, and working on the programs which manage application launching, file handling, and window and task management.
GNOME is part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like operating systems, most notably those built on top of the Linux kernel and the GNU userland, and as part of Java Desktop System in Solaris.
The name originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment.
According to the GNOME website:
The GNOME project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, usability, and making things “just work”. The other aims of the project are:
In 1996, the KDE project was started. KDE was free and open source from the start, but members of the GNU project were concerned...
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