There is one "base" GUI *server* system for Unix/Linux -- X11R6, aka X
Window. The Linux version includes a variety of actual server apps that work
with different video cards, including a dozen or so GPL'd servers, some
specially-licensed ones (from S.u.S.E., and maybe others), and a few
commercial products.
On top of X11, there runs a "window manager", and there are many of these --
fvwm, fvwm95 (which looks sorta like Win95), twm, kde, gnome, etc. This is
probably what you read about.
At 07:35 PM 12/29/98 -0500, Michael Trausch wrote:
>Hi. I need to clarify something for my own knowledge here, as something
>that I read yesterday *really* confused me.
>
>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
>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?
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