GNOME System Tools

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The Gnome System Tools, previously known as Ximian Setup Tools and Helix Setup Tools are a set of configuration programs for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

[edit] History

The tools were first developed by Hans Petter Jansson at Helix Code. Later, several other Helix Code employees were involved, most notably José-María Celorio, Arturo Espinosa, and Tambet Ingo.

When Helix Code changed its name to Ximian, the name of the project was also changed to Ximian Setup Tools. A while later, Ximian decided to no longer dedicate resources to the project, and it was moved to the GNOME CVS server, where Carlos Garnacho Parro later took up maintainership.

[edit] Description

The tools consist of a set of 'backends' (scripts written in Perl) which manipulate the system's configuration files, and generate XML descriptions of the current state, and frontends, generally written in C, which are GUIs for the GNOME desktop environment.

GST has been included in the GNOME 2.8 desktop release, released in September 2004, and have been adopted as the standard system configuration tools in Ubuntu Linux.

The Gnome System Tools currently contains frontend applets for these configurations:

• User Account Management
• Bootloader Configuration
• Runlevel Configuration
• Date and Time Changes
• Disk Configuration
• Network Tools (ping,whois,traceroute)

The GNOME System Tools are free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

[edit] External link

• GNOME System Tools official website