What is GNOME?

GNOME is a Unix and Linux desktop suite and development platform. Here, you can learn more about GNOME as a whole, get involved in GNOME software development, or participate in email discussion lists and news forums.

Official GNOME 2 Developer's Guide

No Starch Press and the GNOME Foundation have announced the release of The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide, the first English-language book about developing with GNOME 2. With this book, current and would-be GNOME developers can come up to speed with the building blocks of GNOME development: the GLib, GTK+, and GNOME API's.

The GNOME community has been deeply involved in the creation of this book. Matthias Warkus wrote the original in German, Miguel de Icaza wrote the foreword for the English edition, and Michael Meeks performed a thorough technical review.

Plus, No Starch Press will be donating a portion of the proceeds the GNOME Foundation! Buy a copy today!

GNOME 2.6 Released!

In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from our hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and accessibility team, the GNOME community has done it again: GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation that our users expect from the world's Free Software desktop.

This release cycle has been a painful one. During it the GNOME community lost three close members: Chema Celorio, Mark Finlay and Ettore Perazzoli were valued members of the community and will be sorely missed. It is fitting, therefore, that this release is dedicated to their memories.

Extensive information about GNOME 2.6 is in our release notes, available from the 2.6 start page. There's also a huge gallery of cool screenshots from our intrepid beta-testers!