🚀 go-pugleaf

Only one of your newsgroups cross posting was particularly appropriate...
(comp.os.linux.alpha).  Had you bothered to wander into the comp.windows.x
related newsgroups, you could have answered this yourself.
			- Jim

> From: "Island Computer" <dbturner@islandco.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:39:13 -0400
> Newsgroups:
>
comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.dec.micro,cu.alpha.manag
> ers,vmsnet.alpha
> Subject: Question:  GUI integrated into Linux ??? - When if ever ????
> -----
> When will there be a truly GUI based version of Linux

In my opinion, it is in the process of happening.  There is not one,
but two competing desktop environments for Linux/UNIX under development.

I'm partial to gnome (www.gnome.org); there is also KDE (www.kde.org).

These are in the process of shipping as part of the next major versions
of Linux distributions (RH 6.0, SUSE 6.1, etc, Caldera, etc.).  Certainly
by the end of the summer Linux will look very different than it has in
the past.

> 
> I was at a Birthday party over the weekend - a bunch of University Users
> that swear by Microsoft were arguing that maybe if Linux was as easy to use
> and install as NT, then they would perhaps try it out

To be fair, NT isn't all that easy to install from scratch.  Linux isn't
much more difficult than that, if your hardware is supported.

> 
> I can't believe that something like Motif hasn't been adapted, or adopted,
> to be integrated in Linux

Motif / CDE is royalty bearing, and at a price that the general Linux 
market is impossible.  It is available as a layered product. I've never 
been fond if them anyway, and have never thought they were serious 
competition to the Mac or Windows.  Gnome (at least; haven't played with 
kde as much) certainly is... I get a charge out of seeing the X window 
System work the way we intended... 
				- Jim Gettys



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Jim Gettys
Industry Standards and Consortia
Compaq Computer Corporation
Visting Scientist, World Wide Web Consortium, M.I.T.
http://www.w3.org/People/Gettys/
jg@w3.org, jg@pa.dec.com