Cygwin + GNOME, port of GNOME desktop to Microsoft Windows, using Cygwin (Red Hat) Unix environment as porting tool and running environment. Descriptions, documents, news, screenshots, downloads, links.
Full suite of libraries/applications allowing easy access to wide range of database systems by making use of abilities in CORBA for communicating between separated modules. CORBA implementation used is ORBit, the GNOME Project ORB.
Desktop Linux gained momentum as vendors including Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Compaq Sun and VA Linux Systems joined to form the Gnome Foundation. (August 16, 2000)