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