GNOME
The GNOME project began as an effort to create an entirely free desktop environment for free systems. GNOME is part of the GNU project. The GNU project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX-like operating system that is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU’s Not Unix; it is pronounced guh-NEW.) Variants of the GNU operating system, which uses the Linux kernel, are now widely used. Though these systems are often referred to as Linux, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user-friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop. As with most GNU programs, GNOME has been designed to run on all modern strains of UNIX-like ...
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