Silly Question

So here's the deal, I've been casually using Fedora Core for about nine months now and feel like I've come full term. No doubt about it, I'm convinced, it's a better deal than Microsoft Windows. Still, I have a question about how Fedora Core, GNOME, Linux, and Xwindows all play together, really I want to know who's who

Okay, Fedora Core is a distribution, got it clear as rain. Linux, by comparison, would be the Windows equivalent of that crazy kernel32.dll. It's the relationship between GNOME and Xwindows that I don't get? Anybody want to take a shot at getting this into the thick skull of tepy?

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