Introduction to GNOME
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What is GNOME

NOTE: If you tire of explanations and just want to get going with GNOME in a practical way, please skip the rest of this preface and read Chapter 1 immediately.

GNOME is a project which endeavors to provide a complete, consistent, state of the art and free user environment for UNIX systems. This includes:

There are many more facets to GNOME, and much information can be found at the GNOME web page.

GNOME is a GNU project, was started in 1997, and has developed very quickly. GNOME can be thought of as an acronym standing for GNU Networked Object Model Environment.


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