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Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 'the most popular' kind of rubs me the wrong way.  Is there any
> proof that it is the most popular?  Polls or otherwise?

There are no viable alternatives.

>                                                          I know
> that by default Solaris installs CDE which I don't think uses X in
> any way.

CDE is a desktop environment that runs on top of X, like KDE or Gnome.

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