may be OT: desktops and X windows system
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri May 11 14:26:59 UTC 2007
azeem ahmad wrote:
> hi list
> um a newbie and my question may look funny to u, but in fact i dont know
> and so wanted to ask
> when installing fedora, we have option of installing "gnome", "kde" and
> "X Windows system"
> what is the difference in all three things and what if i dont install "X
> windows system" and only install gnome????
X Windows is the basic client/server graphics mechanism. KDE and GNOME
are desktop environments that include window managers that needs X for
their displays. If you use yum or make the selection for kde/gnome
during the initial install, X will automatically also be installed as a
dependency.
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Les Mikesell
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