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GNOME is the GNU Network Objects Model Environment.


It is a graphical user interface and desktop environment for GNU/Linux systems, based on the GTK toolkit. The aim of GNOME is to make GNU-based and other UNIX systems easier to use for non-technical users.


The project started due to free software licensing problems with the underlying toolkit (QT) for KDE (a slightly older, comparable desktop environment) during KDE's early history.


After the licensing issues had been resolved, GNOME still proved to have many merits of its own, and many users of GNU/Linux systems favor GNOME.


Native GNOME applications include: The GIMP, Nautilus, Evolution and Gabber.


GNOME is an official graphical user interface of the GNU system; GNUstep is another.


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