Re: xdm-gnome Potato
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:12:54AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Well I was trying to figure out how to get a gnome
> desktop configuration setup (just like redhat) and
> ended up removing xdm and installing gdm. WOW COOL!
>
> Havn't explored all the options yet, but I don't think
> I'm EVER going back to xdm.
All this criticism of `xdm' is totally misdirected. *ALL* the X Window
System programs in X11R6.3 (and let me repeat that *ALL*) are EXAMPLE
implementations of the X Window System. They were never intended to be
the be-all and end-all of X implementations. Remember that X is a
protocol, nothing less and nothing more. Even the libraries provided
with X are SAMPLE IMPLEMENTATIONS, nothing less and nothing more.
By all means laud `gdm': maybe the author has done a good job, but
don't criticise a SAMPLE program.
Really. A bit of historical understanding would not come amiss on this
mailing list.
> On another subject, I had the idea (in the back of my
> head) of making my own linux distro based on debian.
> Now before anyone says NOT ANOTHER..., all I really
> had in mind was a wrapper around the existing debian
> that would peform a pre-packaged install designed for
> the desktop. The gdm package seems to be what I
> really had in mind. Now I remember that the installer
> offered several package options (including 'none'
> which is what I always used). I wonder if the desktop
> option included gdm since I never tried it. Guess
> what I really had in mind was a set of instructions
> that would enable one to simply install the standard
> debian and endup with a RedHat like desktop.
Interesting. How do you propose to get X up on an unknown machine? Can
you guarantee that `XF86Setup' will do everything necessary? Suppose it
doesn't? What happens to your `wrapper'? Or is all this half-baked
comments?
Regards
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