
This document includes:

    * General information
    * Licensing
    * Requirements

* General information

   This is a snapshot of GNOME, the GNU desktop.

   This is alpha software, there are many bugs and applications are
not yet ready for daily use.  We encourage users to try the software
and submit fixes and improvements.

* Licensing

The libgnome and libgnomeui are released under the terms of the LGPL
license, read the file COPYING.LIB for more information.

The rest of the code is released under the terms of the GPL license,
read the file COPYING for more information. 

* Requirements

The Gnome desktop environment depends on a couple of extra packages
for working properly:

	- Guile 1.2: FSF's scheme interpreter.

	   ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/guile-1.2.tar.gz

	- GNU gettext:

	   ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu

	- Gtk+ 0.99.1

	   ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gtk/

        - SLIB 2b3
                See http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SLIB.html
	   
	- desktop_properties:  This program requires that you have 
	  installed the latest BETA of the xlockmore program,
	  available from:

	ftp://wauug.erols.com/pub/X-Windows/xlockmore/index.html

	- libXpm.

Optional libraries that might be used during compile:

	- JPEG, PNG and zlib are optionally used by the HTML display
	  engine.  If found the engine will support those image formats.

* Getting GNOME

Available by FTP from:

   ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx/GNOME/

Available from Anonymous CVS:

   $ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.gimp.org:/debian/home/gnomecvs'
   $ cvs login
     (there is no password, just hit return)
   $ cvs -z9 checkout gnome
