Re: which bill in which washington?

Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:32:38 +0100

wolfkin@phonetech.com writes:

> There are several, but almost all are some version or another of
> "X Windows". This comes with nearly all distributions of Linux,
> so you needn't worry about having to go out and find it. :)

This is not quite correct. Virtually all GUIs make use of X Window facilties, but they are not X Window. Most widespread are http://www.kde.org and http://www.gnome.org . Despite that KDE currently offers more features, Gnome's concept is imo more powerful (apps not limited to just C++) and proven (it's based on the same toolkit as The Gimp), and it does not suffer from legal problems due to TrollTechs proprietary (despite available as source, you are not allowed to modify it) Qt library as KDE does.

Personally I use FVWM, and, occasionally, KDE. I'll switch over to Gnome once its beyond beta.

ciao,
'gene