Preface to the alpha release of GNOME

Table of Contents

What is GNOME

Obtaining and installing GNOME

Dear GNOME enthusiast,

This document accompanies the alpha release of GNOME, shipped in May of 1998. At this time GNOME is an interesting and useful suite of programs, but it is under very active development. This means that you will find many programs which are incomplete and some bugs which you would not expect from a mature product.

Having said this, GNOME is already today an exciting product, and many of its programs are quite useful.