Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:44:47 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Reed To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ? In-Reply-To: <36FFEE44.9499FC4B@lycosmail.com> Message-ID: Precedence: first-class MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, 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???). XFree86 is an implementation of the X Window System aimed specifically at 80x86 computers. ) I was ) thinking that a port of GNOME may be a bit better. XFree86 is Open Source, ) but not GPL, while GNOME is. X is analagous to Microsoft Windows, while GNOME is analagous to Microsoft Office. http://home.earthlink.net/~nawalker/faq/FAQ-1.html#ss1.2 1.2 What is GNOME? To quote from the original announcement from comp.os.linux.announce, GNOME is intended to be "a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software." http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#AboutXFree86 XFree86 is a trademark of The XFree86 Project, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides X Window System servers (as well as some supporting materials) for several operating systems on PCs and other microcomputers. The X servers, client programs, documentation, etc. supplied by the XFree86 Project, Inc., are collectively, also known as XFree86. All programs are provided with source code, free of charge. There *is* an alternative windowing system to X, that's called YAK or YAX or something like that. I don't know much about it, it's still relatively knew, but you may have been thinking of YA? and said GNOME (unless you really did confuse GNOME as another windowing system, or X as an application suite). -- Daniel Reed Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.