Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/29/17:45:14
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
) If I may make another suggestion, I hear references to a port of X windows
) (Is this just a part of XFree 86, or essentially the same thing???).
XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System aimed specifically at
80x86 computers.
) I was
) thinking that a port of GNOME may be a bit better. XFree86 is Open Source,
) but not GPL, while GNOME is.
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X is analagous to Microsoft Windows, while GNOME is analagous to Microsoft
Office.
http://home.earthlink.net/~nawalker/faq/FAQ-1.html#ss1.2
1.2 What is GNOME?
To quote from the original announcement from comp.os.linux.announce,
GNOME is intended to be "a free and complete set of user friendly
applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based
entirely on free software."
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#AboutXFree86
XFree86 is a trademark of The XFree86 Project, Inc., a non-profit
organization that provides X Window System servers (as well as some
supporting materials) for several operating systems on PCs and other
microcomputers. The X servers, client programs, documentation, etc.
supplied by the XFree86 Project, Inc., are collectively, also known as
XFree86. All programs are provided with source code, free of charge.
There *is* an alternative windowing system to X, that's called YAK or YAX or
something like that. I don't know much about it, it's still relatively knew,
but you may have been thinking of YA? and said GNOME (unless you really did
confuse GNOME as another windowing system, or X as an application suite).
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Daniel Reed <n AT ml DOT org>
Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.
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