There are multiple GUI's out there for Linux... The most common of them all
is XFree86... This is the base graphics server that drives your display. It
comes with a multitude of different "faces" or window managers. This is not
however the only GUI out there. One commercial GUI is MetroX and there are
others besides. All have the same function, with different features or
customisations.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 4:19 AM
Subject: GUI systems for Linux
>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?
>
>Thanks!
>
> - M. Trausch
