Why GNOME?

• Started in Aug 1997

  • by Miguel de Icaza
  • to provide a Free desktop for the GNU/Linux operating system.

• Why not KDE?

  • based on Trolltech's QT (license issues)
  • written in C++

• Why GTK+?

  • written in C
  • LGPL
  • already used by The GIMP, a popular Free software project.

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