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What is GNOME?

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What is GNOME?

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- [Presenter] GNOME is the default interface for Fedora and Enterprise Linux, as well as Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, SUZE Enterprise Linux, and Sun Solaris Linux. But what is it? GNOME desktop came into existence in 1997 due to a licensing issue at the time with a KDE desktop. KDE used GUI toolkit, which was proprietary and many people wanted a completely open source desktop. Thus GNOME 1 was created using the GNOME Toolkit or GTK. GNOME used to stand for GNU Network Object Model Environment hinting at their intention of making a graphical interface framework similar to Microsoft's OLE. Now GNOME just means GNOME. The G in GNU is pronounced hard, therefore GNOME, which included GNU in its name, is also pronounced GNOME and not NOME. It should be noted that GNOME is no longer part of the GNU project. At one point, there was an attempt at making a GNOME Office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, database, project…

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