Silly Question

Paul F. Johnson paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk
Thu Aug 4 14:51:43 UTC 2005


Hi,

> Okay, Fedora Core is a distribution, got it clear as rain. Linux, by
> comparison, would be the Windows equivalent of that crazy
> kernel32.dll. 

Linux is the kernel. It is completely modular, so there really isn't a
Win32 equivalent, mainly as the Win32 is monolithic in design.

> It's the relationship between GNOME and Xwindows that I don't get?

X is the desktop server. GNOME is a window manager which can be
configured, have code written for and whatnot. There are plenty of other
window managers around.

>  Anybody want to take a shot at getting this into the thick skull of
> tepy?

Hope that helps.

TTFN

Paul
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