The GNOME X Environment
This section covers GNOME, the GNU Network Object Model Environment, which is supported by and is being developed by programmers from Red Hat Software, Inc. and other developers around the world. GNOME has received increasing interest because it is distributed under the GNU GPL; in August 2000, IBM, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and other corporate developers banded together to create the GNOME Foundation, aimed at grooming GNOME and incorporating technologies into a standard desktop for UNIX and Linux.
GNOME is an important part of the future of the graphical X desktop for Linux for a number of reasons:
The software is fully Open Source and vendor neutral; commercial software may be built upon the software ...
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