GNOME System Tools

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 system.

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 programming language, which are GUIs for the GNOME desktop environment.

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 Concurrent Versions System server, where Carlos Garnacho Parro later took up maintainership.

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)

=External link=

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