Using recycled bits, Michael Trausch said:
% I was reading something on the Internet about X Terminals, and how the X
% GUI system worked.  Now, my ex-coworker from a Computer Store that I
% used to work at said that UNIX has only one real GUI system, and that is
% the X Window System (in the case of Linux, XFree86).  However, something

The X Window software is the GUI system; there are multitude of window
managers, however, which put quite a different face on the X Window system:
Enlightenment, AfterStep, KDE, WindowMaker, FVWM, FVWM2, OpenLook, TWM.
Perhaps it is the plethora of window managers to which the item below
refers.

% that I read yesterday said, something like there are about 4 GUI systems
% for Linux and UNIX.  How is this possible, and what are they?

-- 
Kurt Wall
Boss to employee:  "It's called 'delegation of authority,' not 'picking
the scapegoat in advance.'" (Shamelessly stolen sig)

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