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

The GNOME Project

The GNOME ( GNU[53] Network Object Model Environment) open source project is a highly ambitious project that owes much to the legacy of the X Windows System. GNOME started exclusively as a Linux project, but, as we’ll describe later in this chapter, ports are underway for other operating systems. The purpose of GNOME is twofold:

  • To build a completely free, easy to use, graphical desktop for end users (along the lines of the Macintosh and Windows models)

  • At the same time, to build a powerful GUI application framework for those on the development side who are building desktop applications

Some people think of GNOME as being simply a window manager. But the GNOME Project is really a whole group of projects under one vast umbrella, including many sophisticated and technically interesting projects that make extensive use of XML. GNOME started up as a discrete project around 1997, with an initial call for participation by Miguel de Icaza. Since then, many excellent developers have joined forces under the GNOME umbrella.

The GNOME development framework focuses on GTK+ (the GIMP Toolkit) and GDK (the GIMP Drawing Kit); we’ll describe these in the following sections. Many applications have already been developed for GNOME, including an image-manipulation tool, an image viewer, a word processor, various types of audio players, and various database applications. For information about these database applications—in particular, the excellent Orasoft applications suite—see ...

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