Re: What is GNOME?

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

>  - say that GNOME is only the desktop environment that's always
>    running (panel, etc.) and the development libs; exclude 
>    _all_ applications

GNOME is a platform for bringing modern applications into free
systems.  One component of GNOME is the GNOME desktop.

This is how I have personally refered to GNOME, the introduction that
I have been using in my talks and on the various articles related to
GNOME.

Miguel.