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GNU Network Object Model Environment definition
operating system (GNOME) A project to build a complete,
user-friendly desktop based entirely on
free software. GNOME is part of the
GNU project and part of the
OpenSource movement. The desktop will consist of small
utilities and larger
applications which share a consistent
look and feel. GNOME uses
GTK+ as the
GUI toolkit for applications.
GNOME is intended to run on any modern and functional
Unix-like system. The current version runs on
Linux,
FreeBSD,
IRIX and
Solaris.
(http://gnome.org/).
(1998-10-17)