On Thursday 04 August 2005 15:51, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > 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. > > > It's the relationship between GNOME and Xwindows that I don't get? Let's see. Linux is the kernel of the operating system. It looks after the hardware and scheduling and all that kind of stuff. It is a modular system unlike Mic$osoft Windows. X is a basic windowing system which runs on Unix/Linux. It provides a basic windowing API. XFree-86 and xorg are two implementations of X. Fedora uses xorg. Gnome is a windows environment built on top of X. It provides panels, launchers a window manager and lots of other goodies. There are other window environments available eg. KDE. and lots of other window managers such a Xfce. Fedora Core is a Linux distribution. I includes the Linux kernel, an X implementation xorg, some window environments Gnome and KDE, and lots of other goodies. Hope that helps, Tony -- Tony Molloy. Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick
