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
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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