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- About the GNOME System Tools
- ----------------------------
-
- - Targeted to desktop users:
-
- These tools are intended to simplify the tasks of configuring a Unix system
- for workstations. They are not intended for configuring Unix servers.
-
- - Unified system configuration:
-
- Configuring different Unix systems is different; every Unix system has
- different ways of being administrated. The GNOME System Tools aspire to
- unify these systems.
-
- - Multi-platform:
-
- Each one of the GNOME System Tools is split in two parts: a backend (which
- is typically written in Perl) and a user interface frontend (which is
- typically written in C or Python).
-
- The backends are written in a way that should allow us to quickly adapt
- them to various different flavors of Unix; the backend probes your system
- and parses the existing system files. When the user has finished editing
- the system settings, the configuration is written back as patches to the
- system files.
-
- This means that the GNOME System Tools use whatever configuration files are
- available on your system, and you can still edit those files by hand or
- with other configuration tools without conflicts or data loss.
-
-
- References
- ----------
-
- Introduction: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/
-
- Whitepaper: http://www.ximian.com/tech/ximian-setup-tools.php3
-
- Mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/system-tools-list
-
- FTP: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-system-tools/
-
- GNOME CVS: Module "gnome-system-tools".
-
- IRC: irc.gnome.org, #gst
-
- Developers: Chema Celorio <chema@ximian.com>
- Hans Petter Jansson <hpj@ximian.com>
- Arturo Espinosa <arturo@ximian.com>
- Tambet Ingo <tambet@ximian.com>
- Jacob Berkman <jacob@ximian.com>
- Bradford Hovinen <hovinen@ximian.com>
- Carlos Garnacho Parro <garparr@teleline.es>
-
- Artists: Anna Dirks <anna@ximian.com>
- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@ximian.com>
- Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert@ximian.com>
- Joakim Ziegler <joakim@ximian.com>
-
- Please send any patches or technical questions/requests to the developers.
-