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![]() GNOME Shell with GNOME Web (version 41, released in September 2021) | |
Original author(s) | Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena |
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Developer(s) | The GNOME Project |
Initial release | 3 March 1999[1] |
Stable release | 46.1[2] ![]() |
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Written in | C, XML, C++, C#, HTML, Vala, Python, JavaScript, CSS, and more[3] |
Operating system | BSD, Linux, Unix |
Platform | Wayland and X11 |
Available in | 38 languages[4] |
Type | Desktop environment |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[5] |
Website | www![]() |
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.
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.[6]
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: