GNOME System Tools

infobox Software
name = GNOME System Tools
platform = GNOME
website = [http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/ gnome.org/projects/gst]

Gnome System Tools (GST), previously known as "Ximian Setup Tools" and "Helix Setup Tools", is a set of configuration programs for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. 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. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GST is free software.

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.

Included applets

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)

External links

* [http://www.gnome.org/projects/gst/ GNOME System Tools official website]