{"id":356,"date":"2006-02-24T03:22:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=95"},"modified":"2006-02-24T06:16:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:16:15","slug":"getting-to-know-the-x-window-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know the X Window System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever you talk about a GUI under Unix or Linux, your first thought is <a href=\"http:\/\/kde.org\">KDE<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/gnome.org\">Gnome<\/a>. But KDE and Gnome would be nothing without the X Window System, or more simply X11 or X, on which they rely. Free Software Magazine has an excellent, in-depth look to answer the question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesoftwaremagazine.com\/free_issues\/issue_10\/what_is_x\/index_p1.html\">What is X?<\/a>.   <\/p>\n<p>X is a windowing environment that provides a bare skeleton for GUI operations. Ignoring the display elements for a second, one of the key elements of X is that the computer on which the application is running, and the machine on which the interface to that application is provided do not need to be the same machine. 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But KDE and Gnome would be nothing without the X Window System, or more simply X11 or X on which they rely. Free Software Magazine has an excellent, in-depth look to answer the question <A href=\"http:\/\/www.freesoftwaremagazine.com\/free_issues\/issue_10\/what_is_x\/index_p1.html\">What is X?<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>X is a windowing environment that provides a bare skeleton for GUI operations. Ignoring the display elements for a second, one of the key elements of X is that the computer on which the application is running, and the machine on which the interface to that application is provided do not need to be the same machine. 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