"Bryan J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.

Well, that sucks.  What about us poor slobs that want a lightweight option to
the gnome and kde stacks?

Good thing I use debian.  Would CentOS be like RHEL, then?  (if you know).
I've not looked closely at CentOS so I'm not certain if they deviate or
really do ape RHEL.

Regards,
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