On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 09:23:11AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> X windows is with Fedora, but I believe Unity dropped X in favour of > >> UBUNTUs own gui interface. > > I've been told that X is still available, but you may have to go to the > > trouble of installing it as well as another window manager that uses it. > > AFAIK, Unity uses X like most/all other GNU/Linux GUIs do.
Interesting. I got the impression they were hell-bent on bypassing X. > The only significant GUI I know which doesn't use X yet runs on top of > Linux is Android's GUI (there are some others, but less well known, > which run for example directly on top of the framebuffer, such as > QtMoko). Yes, I know about Android. It's a nuisance. Not to mention no support (or no user-accessible support) for sshfs or NFS as far as I can tell. The Android tablets are the only Linux systems in the house exiled from the server. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
