Skip to Main Content
Oracle and Open Source
book

Oracle and Open Source

by Andy Duncan, Sean Hull
April 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Oracle and Open Source

Chapter 9. GNOME and GTK+

When the Linux operating system exploded on the open source landscape, it was greeted with great enthusiasm. But Unix users, however much they loved the Linux command line, with its power, simplicity, speed, and elegance, still longed for a graphical user interface with which they could run all their other software: WYSIWYG word processors, load monitors, notepads, browsers, and image editors. For a long time, the only option on any free Unix system was the X Windows System, with its myriad of window managers (e.g., twm, fvwm, etc.). Enter GNOME.

The GNOME project is a Linux-based effort to build the world’s best desktop environment, one that combines the power and functionality of Unix-like systems with the visual elegance of Macintosh and Windows-type desktops. Not only did the GNOME developers set out to build a better-looking desktop environment, they also wanted to create a framework for easily building applications—applications whose GUIs would share a common, flexible look and feel, and whose activities would be integrated with other desktop operations. With the advent of GNOME, Oracle on Linux, which has in recent years become an important platform for database backend solutions, is now becoming a viable desktop solution as well. As the benefits of Linux become more widely appreciated, we anticipate that Linux could eventually become the platform of choice for many of the world’s developers and global software corporations. In fact, Sun Microsystems ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide

Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide

Melanie Cameron
Expert Oracle Exadata

Expert Oracle Exadata

Kerry Osborne, Randy Johnson, Tanel Pöder
Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs

Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs

John Beresniewicz, Adrian Billington, Martin Büchi, Melanie Caffrey, Ron Crisco, Lewis Cunningham, Dominic Delmolino, Sue Harper, Torben Holm, Connor McDonald, Arup Nanda, Stephan Petit, Michael Rosenblum, Robyn Sands, Riyaj Shamsudeen
Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata

Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata

Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Maqsood Alam, Mans Bhuller

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596000189Catalog PageErrata