GNOME is a computer desktop environment.
It was designed for Linux, but many other operating systems can use it too. GNOME aims to provide an easy way to use a computer. GNOME is a free software project. It was made because people were questioning whether KDE is free. GNOME is part of the GNU project.
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Original author(s) | Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena |
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Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
Initial release | 3 March 1999 |
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Written in | C, XML, C++, C#, HTML, Vala, Python, JavaScript, CSS, and more |
Operating system | BSD, Linux, Unix |
Platform | Wayland and X11 |
Available in | 38 languages |
Type | Desktop environment |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | www |
According to the GNOME website:
The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
The GNOME project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, usability, and making things “just work” (see KISS principle). The other aims of the project are:
GNOME has many applications written for it. Some of them include:
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