GNOME

GNOME () is a free and open-sourcedesktop environment for Linux and BSD. It is distributed as the default desktop environment of Debian, Fedora Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Oracle Solaris. Of particular note is that Solaris only works with versions of GNOME that still used X11 and not Wayland, since GNOME dropped X11 support.

GNOME is developed by the GNOME Project, which is composed of both volunteers and paid contributors, the largest corporate contributor being Red Hat. It is an international project that aims to develop frameworks for software development, to program end-user applications based on these frameworks, and to coordinate efforts for the internationalization, localization, and accessibility of that software. Its current version is GNOME 50, released in 2026.

In 2023 and 2024, GNOME received €1,000,000 from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund.