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GNOME, KDE and X Windows. The GNOME Project was started in 1997 to produce a free (as in freedom) desktop environment. GNU Network Object Model Environment. It is a Graphical User Interface. GNOME allows the user to select one of several desktop appearances.
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The GNOME Project was started in 1997 to produce a free (as in freedom) desktop environment. • GNU Network Object Model Environment. • It is a Graphical User Interface. GNOME allows the user to select one of several desktop appearances.
it is the most popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux. • GNOME includes a set of the same type of applications found in the Windows Office 97 product: a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a database manager, a presentation developer, a Web browser, and an e-mail program.
GNOME exists because of its participants. Over 3500 people have contributed changes to the project's code repositories, including the employees of 106 companies. • GNOME software is available in a large number of spoken languages, and the project aims to ensure that its software is usable for everyone, including people with disabilities.
KDE • K Desktop Environment (KDE) is an Open Source graphical desktop environment. • KDE has a complete graphical user interface (GUI) and includes a file manager, a window manager, a help system, a configuration system, tools and utilities, and several applications. The most popular suite of KDE applications is KOffice, which includes a word processor, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application
X Windows • The X Window System was the result of research efforts in the early 1980s at Stanford University and MIT, aided by IBM. • The X Window System (sometimes referred to as "X" or as "XWindows") is an open, cross-platform, client/server system for managing a windowed graphical user interface in a distributed network.
X is hardware-independent. With X you can run Microsoft Windows Applications on a UNIX workstation, or you can run a UNIX application on an Apple Macintosh system.