<i><b>G</i>NU</b>step is a complete object-oriented development system, based on the
OpenStep specification released by NeXT(tm) (now Apple(tm)) and Sun(tm). It will provide everything one needs to produce cross-platform, object-oriented, graphical (and non-graphical) applications; providing among other things, base system libraries, a high-level GUI application framework that uses a Display PostScript(tm)-like imaging model (DGS), objects for accessing relational databases, distributed objects and a graphical development environment, with tools like interface modeller, a project management system
(project center) and other tools.
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The GNUstep development system will be used to create a user environment,
with everything needed for a complete graphical user interface, such as a
file viewer, text editors and other applications. Note that the user
environment (or "desktop environment") is only a small part of the whole
GNUstep project and therefore it does not "compete" with other projects like
KDE or GNOME, simply because they are completely different things.
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For more information on the GNUstep project, visit:
<u>http://www.gnustep.org</u> and <u>http://gnustep.current.nu</u>