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Date:	Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:51:48 -0800
From:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> 
> If I may make another suggestion, I hear references to a port of X windows
> (Is this just a part of XFree 86, or essentially the same thing???). I was
> thinking that a port of GNOME may be a bit better. XFree86 is Open Source,
> but not GPL, while GNOME is.

A little semantic confusion here.  X Windows is a windowing system
originally developed by MIT; XFree86 is one implementation of it, which
happens to be open-source.

GNOME, however (unless I am much mistaken) is a desktop environment; it
runs *on top of* X.  So we cannot have Gnome without X.

Note, however, that the FSF considers X to be "free software", even
though its license is not exactly GPL.  (Last I heard, anyway; subject
to cosmic rays and RMS.)
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

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