Chapter 3. Configuring Gnome
Red Hat Linux Version 6.0 is the first version of the Red Hat Linux product that is integrated "out of the box" with a visual shell—called a desktop environment. In fact, it actually comes with several desktop environments that you can switch among. The default—and most complete—desktop environment is Gnome (pronounced with a hard G: "Guh-nome").
Gnome is not the only desktop environment available to you: For information on the K and Another Level desktop environments, see Chapter 6. But if you accepted the suggestions made by the Red Hat installation program, your computer will start up with Gnome.
Gnome is a very complete and powerful graphic desktop. In look and feel, it is probably closer to the Mac OS than to ...
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