GNOME Foundation | 21,954 followers on LinkedIn. Building a diverse and sustainable free software personal computing ecosystem. | The GNOME Foundation will work to further the goal of the GNOME project: to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. 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.