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.

The GNOME Foundation

When you make a donation to the GNOME Foundation, you ensure that GNOME is always well represented throughout the world and you allow us to defray expenses for independent developers and students coming to conferences like GUADEC and the GNOME Summit.

To help, you can become a Friend of GNOME or increase your current level of sponsorship. This holiday season, the first x donors contributing over $x will receive a GNOME foot pin. As always, we also acknowledge every donation made on the GNOME website. The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit group; all contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S. So come on kids, don't miss out and send in your donation today!

Special thanks to our generous friends, and remember that every donation is important.

GNOME 2.8 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 2.8.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation that our users expect from the world's Free Software desktop.

Extensive information about GNOME 2.8 is in our release notes, available from the 2.8 start page. There's also a huge gallery of cool screenshots from our intrepid beta-testers!