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In 1991, the last major essential component of a Unix-like system was developed: Linux, the free kernel written by Linus Torvalds. Today, the combination of GNU and Linux is used by millions of people around the world, and its popularity is growing. This month, we announced release 1.0 of GNOME, the GNU graphical desktop, which we hope will make the GNU/Linux system as easy to use as any other operating system.