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<chapter id="intro">
<title>Introduction - Nautilus Preview Release Two</title>
<para>
Nautilus is the new file manager for GNOME, the
emerging desktop of choice for both Linux and
UNIX. Some of Nautilus’ features include:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Graphic representation of files, with file icons displaying
actual file content: images, text, music, etc.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
A variety of interface customizations, from the practical-- adjusting the amount of file data displayed according to
user-level--to the decorative: backgrounds, themes and
colors.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Mixed network (Linux and Windows) access, and Internet
browsing, from within Nautilus.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
This manual describes the Nautilus Preview
Release 2. The first production release will ship
with GNOME 1.4
</para>
<sect1 id="intro-organization">
<title>Manual Organization</title>
<para>
This manual is a step-by-step guide to Nautilus
features. The organization is:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
This Introduction.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
An Installation section.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Chapter One, concentrating on fundamental file operations.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Chapter Two, presenting the range of system customization
options available in Nautilus.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Chapter Three, describing how Nautilus is integrated into
Eazel Services, how to use them, and their benefits.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="intro-fsf">
<title>Free Software</title>
<para>
Like Linux and GNOME, Nautilus is Free Software, a method
of software distribution which encourages innovation, improvement
and timely bug fixes, and to which Eazel, Inc., the Nautilus
maintainer, is committed.
</para>
<para>
Fundamentally, the General Public License (or
GPL, under which Linux, GNOME and Nautilus
are licensed), insists that an application must always
be accompanied by its source code, that the
code can be freely modified, and that the user (or
purchaser) of software distributed under this license
agrees to in turn distribute their own source
code under the same license, when distributing, or
selling, a modified application.
</para>
<para>
It can be seen that distributing software under the
GPL license does not prohibit selling software,
and in fact many companies do sell Linux distributions
and applications. The license does insist
on the free sharing, and distribution, of source
code. And it is this open code distribution
policy which the Free Software movement believes
will eventually result in more innovatory, less
troublesome, and more useful software.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="intro-history">
<title>Nautilus History</title>
<para>
Nautilus can trace its Free Software lineage back
to the text-based Midnight Commander file man-
ager (still available on some Linux distributions).
The X Window version followed. Developing
from that base, Eazel has produced in Nautilus a
next-generation GUI that integrates file management,
web browsing, and system management.
</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="intro-platforms">
<title>Supported Platforms and Distributions</title>
<para>
Although initially developed on the Red Hat 6.2
Linux platform, Nautilus is being written for
cross-platform and multi-version operability in
short, to operate on every platform that GNOME
will operate on.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
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