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GNOME

GNOME is a graphical environment for the Linux operating system. "GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project, and it is free software compliant with the OpenSource(tm) definition. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications." www.gnome.org

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The GNOME Project

GNU Object Model Environment: Building a full, user-friendly desktop for Unix operating systems, based entirely on free software. Will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME is part of the GNU project.

Computerworld: Unix vendors adopt Gnome desktop

Desktop Linux gained momentum as vendors including Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Compaq Sun and VA Linux Systems joined to form the Gnome Foundation.

CyGNOME

Cygwin + GNOME, port of GNOME desktop to Microsoft Windows, using Cygwin (Red Hat) Unix environment as porting tool and running environment. Descriptions, documents, news, screenshots, downloads, links.

Express

An open source web browser. It is part of the Gnome project, and requires the gtk-XmHTML widget.

gecco

GNOME Extensible Configuration COnsole, goal: to provide central location to access system administration functions within GNOME environment.

The GNOME Development Site

Information about current projects, developer news, documentation, and information on how to get involved.

GNOME News

Good place for a little Gnome history.

GNOME-DB

Full suite of libraries/applications allowing easy access to wide range of database systems by making use of abilities in CORBA for communicating between separated modules. CORBA implementation used is ORBit, the GNOME Project ORB.

ORBit

A high-performance, lightweight CORBA ORB aiming for CORBA 2.2 compliance (ORBit1) and 2.4 compliance (ORBit2).