mar 3, 1999 - GNOME

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GNOME (/ɡəˈnoʊm, ˈnoʊm/)[7][8] is a free and open-source desktop environment for Unix-like[9] operating systems. GNOME was originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, but the acronym was dropped because it no longer reflected the vision of the GNOME project.
GNOME was started on 15 August 1997[13] by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena as a free software project to develop a desktop environment and applications for it.[14] It was founded in part because K Desktop Environment, which was growing in popularity, relied on the Qt widget toolkit which used a proprietary software license until version 2.0 (June 1999).

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