Thursday, 27 October 2011

The Desktop Environment In Linux

Two commonly used ones:
i- GNOME (GNU Object Model Environment)‏
–www.gnome.org

ii-KDE (K Desktop Environment)‏
–www.kde.org

•Both GNOME and KDE come with a set of advanced productivity tools and applications e.g. text editors, word processors, spreadsheets and web browsers
•KDE applications can run in GNOME and vice versa if the graphic libraries required by each of these desktop environments are available

GNOME
• Is a desktop environment—a graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system
• composed entirely of free and open source software.
• GNOME is part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like operating systems, most notably GNU/Linux, and as part of the Java Desktop System in Solaris.




3 main components: the Menu System, the Panel, the Desktop itself

GNOME 2.20


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