GNOME is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like systems, which provides the graphical interface, windows, menus and many standard applications. The project was begun by the Mexican programmers Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena as a free alternative to KDE, which at the time depended on a toolkit, Qt, that was not completely free software. GNOME is built on the GTK toolkit and became part of the GNU Project. Version 1.0 was the first stable release of the project. A major redesign came with GNOME 3 in 2011, which introduced a new style of working. GNOME is the default desktop of many Linux distributions, among them Fedora and Ubuntu.
Before and after
- 3 January 1999Launch of Mars Polar Lander
- from 10 January 1999 to 10 June 2007Premiere of The Sopranos
- from 31 January 1999 to 14 February 2002Premiere of Family Guy
- 7 February 1999Launch of Stardust
- 3 March 1999Release of GNOME
- 7 March 1999Death of Stanley Kubrick
- from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- from 28 March 1999 to 29 July 2025Premiere of Futurama
- 1 April 1999Founding of Paranal Observatory
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
The era
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