SiliconValley.internet.com: Return of the GNOME

"Ximian, Inc., Wipro, and Sun Microsystems say they will jointly develop an open source desktop environment for the Solaris Operating Environment (OE) based on the upcoming GNOME 2.0.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun says it expects to deliver the finished product in the third quarter of this year. The new environment is planned for availability on the Solaris 8 OE and higher.

GNOME is an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment (Pronounced guh-nome.). The system is part of the GNU project and part of the free software, or open source, movement. The Windows-like desktop system works on UNIX and UNIX-like systems and is not dependent on any one-window manager. The current version runs on Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX and Solaris."

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