Re: What is Gnome?

[Todd Zullinger <tmz pobox com>]

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Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> We see that each year the new students are less and less familiar
> with unix, and many find it very intimidating. Alot of the students
> just click the Windows-icon on the desktop, which starts an rdesktop
> connection to our terminal server running Windows 2003.

:-(

> Looking for a list of application that constitutes the gnome
> desktop, I found nothing. Looking for screenshots, I found nothing.
> Looking for info on the file manager. Nothing. What features does
> the window manager have? I don't know? What does Gnome offer me for
> site-wide configuration of multi user systems? Beats me!

I'd take a look at the User's and System Administration Guides.  Both
are available at http://www.gnome.org/learn/ .

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