From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 11:30:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14307 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA14161 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:29:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z6fdH-0000N7-00; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:28:23 +0200 Message-ID: <19980812202823.A1416@cityip.co.za> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:28:23 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: GR Gaudreau , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD or Linux? Mail-Followup-To: GR Gaudreau , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199808121551.LAA15597@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808121551.LAA15597@hme0.mailrouter01.sprint.ca>; from GR Gaudreau on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 11:27:05AM -0400 X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 at 11:27 SAT, GR Gaudreau wrote: > > Thank you, I'll check out AfterStep. Since I'm not familiar with this X > stuff, I didn't realize that the wm wasn't a GUI. However, I appreciate the > correction. Would it be correct to say that the front-end, the "stuff" I > see on the screen when X-Windows is running, is the GUI? A while ago I resolved to formulate model answers to those questions I seem unable to restrain myself from answering repeatedly on mailing lists. :-) I've finally completed a first draft of my answer to the "What is X?" question (based on a posting of mine to this very list). See: http://ns.cityip.co.za/~wjv/vdocs/what-is-X.html It's not technical - it's not meant to be. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message