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Chapter 1. An Introduction to GNOME

way you want it to look and feel. GNOME’s session manager

remembers previous settings, so once you’ve set things the way you

like they’ll stay that way. GNOME supports many human languages,

and you can add more without changing the software. GNOME even

supports several Drag and Drop protocols for maximum

interoperability with applications that aren’t GNOME-compliant.

GNOME also has a number of advantages for developers which

indirectly also help users. Developers don’t need to purchase an

expensive software license to make their commercial application

GNOME compliant. In fact, GNOME is vendor neutral - no

component of the interface is controlled solely by one company or

restricted from modiﬁcation and redistribution. GNOME applications

can be developed in a variety of computer languages, so you’re not

stuck with a single language. GNOME uses the Common Object

Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) to allow software components

to interoperate seamlessly, regardless of the computer language in

which they are implemented, or even what machine they are running

on. Finally, GNOME runs on a number of Unix-like operating

systems, including Linux.

GNOME is an acronym for the GNU Network Object Model

Environment, so GNOME is a part of the larger GNU project. The

GNU Project started in 1984 to develop a completely free Unix-like

operating system. If you’d like to learn more about the GNU project

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