On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Adi Stav wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:51:45AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > Now. let's see if I got it right: > > > RedHat is the operating system, and the > > > KDE, GNOME... are the envyroments - > > > Which means: I'll have the Linux Redhat 6.2 > > > and will be ableto function on several > > > envyroments. > > > > > > Hope I'm not a slowlearner... > > > > I prefer to say that Linux is the operating system, RedHat is the > > distribution, With the current amount of differences between various linux distros, calling each of them "operting system" is more correct. Although there is a concept of a "linux system" (a linux kernel, built with gnu tools, usually uses XFree as the X server, and uses a subset of a whole bunch of other software packages. There is a "Linux Standards Base", but at the moment the different distibutions are not compliant enough (even the most recent versions). Some other linux distros will probably never aim at LSB compliance, typically those aimed for embedded systems or for other spcialized systems. So they will always remain different operating systems (technically. You can always call them linux distros, as I did here). > > 6.2 is the distribution version, and Kde or Gnome are the > > desktop environments. You should be able to use both Gnome and Kde, but not > > concurrently, unless you have several monitors. > > ..But you will be able to run any applications in any environment. A > desktop environment only means what your desktop set up will be: how > thewindows looks like, what is the default file manager etc. You can > still run Gnome programs in KDE or KDE programs in Gnome with no > problems. Technically you can run the together. Sort of:: run enlightenment or WindowMaker and run from there 'kpanel' (at least with kde1) and panel (gnome's panel). It's easy to place them in two different sceen placements. Then start the file managers of both environments (gmc, kfm). I remeber I did this once. The result will probably be a nice, messy desktop, with tons of wasted memory. One thing which can't be duplicated is the session management. (BTW: I think xfwm is supposed to be gnome-compliant. anybody tried running both gnome and xfce? ;-) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
