On Thu, 8/14/08, G. Matthew Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, forgot to mention this. > You may just not have the xdm package installed. I'm > pretty certain that xdm comes as part of the whole X app suite.
Actually, as of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, only a subset of Xorg is shipped, with GNOME and KDE frameworks providing any missing capabilities. I don't believe xdm is shipped anymore. Fedora maintains a X:1 package relationship to RHEL, and there is no xorg-x11-xdm package. Furthermore, "yum whatprovides" is not coming back with anything for /etc/X11/xdm nor /etc/xdm. As always, if anyone is wondering why Red Hat does something, Bugzilla is a great resource for almost a dozen years of publicly open decisions. Red Hat really does not support running a GUI on RHEL 5+ except via GNOME or KDE. But Fedora, which has a superset of packages, still does ship, and support other frameworks (e.g., XFCE) as well as various window managers without full frameworks. > Looking at debian unstable and testing, there is still an > xdm package (probably more useful for the icewm, xfce, et > al users) and they've left the files in /etc/X11/xdm. > Can anyone confirm/deny the locations of the g/kdm files on > other distros? In general, the 100% freely distributable, 0% indemnification natures of Debian and Fedora always great test beds. It helps that nearly all other packages-based distros (which would not include source-builds, like Gentoo**) are based on those two. The sole, other except may be OpenSUSE, of which I haven't studied it's redistribution/indemnification in awhile. But given Novell's marketshare, and the amount of GPL that Novell puts it, it's always a 3rd consideration when it comes to comparison. **NOTE: I'm not dismissing Gentoo from consideration. Anyone who has seen me post in the past, my view is quite the opposite. It's just radically different being a ports/source-build, instead of YAPD (yet another packages distro), and does not use similar backend/frontend package management systems. _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
