Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 07:51:37 +0100 (GMT) | From | Mo McKinlay <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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# but mostly it simply avoids actually being a desktop...
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That's because it's a windowing system/GUI, not a desktop... :)
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Historically, the desktop and the GUI were the same thing - usually because they were created by the same group of people (and were traditionally closed-source). The X Window system is a free software/open source programmer's dream in this respect, in that the two aren't locked together in such a way that replacing one half requires extreme hackery and horribleness.
That said, last time I looked at the sources to a window manager, it was pretty horrible.. ;)
-- Mo McKinlay Chief Software Architect inter/open Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org>
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