The GNOME website says "The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop."
It is pronounced as /gəˈnoʊm/
The name “GNOME” was proposed as an acronym of GNU Network Object Model Environment. The reason being that the original intention of GNOME was to create a distributed object framework similar to Microsoft's OLE. But now their vision is totally different. So the acronym is not used any more.
The default desktop environment for Ubuntu is GNOME. The latest version is GNOME 2.26 and will be shipped with Ubuntu 9.04.
Some of the useful links on GNOME are,
GNOME Official Website
GNOME Projects
GNOME Development
The new GNOME 2.26
Reference: Wikipedia-GNOME
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