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Re: no linux GUI in 97?



At 10:46 PM 4/22/2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>No, you got it all backwards, in 1991 the GUI had no Linux :)
>
>I think Linux started on 1991 or a little later (if I remember correctly,
>I started using it around 1993). X11, which is to this day Linux's
>GUI existed way before that...
>
>But it is probably true that the first releases of Linux didn't include
>an X-Windows port - after all when your file system isn't working
>correctly yet, the last thing you're going to concetrate on is porting
>a huge corpus of software like X-Windows. I remember how a little later
>(in 1994) I had at work an old Sun machine with some broken old version
>of X-Windows (X11R3). So I brought the entire X11R4 source distribution
>from MIT (on a QIC tape), which was around 100MB (this was considered
>huge at the time), and compiled the beast. The compilation took many,
>many hours. It wasn't something you would want to try on an experimental,
>version 0.1, operating system...

Actually, when Linux first shipped out, it didn't even have a login system, 
let alone a GUI. What you basically got was dumped right into single user 
mode, and you had the GNU utils & GCC. X11 was introduced at a much later 
date (with several other attempts at a GUI as 'light' X replacements, if 
memory serves correctly - X was a monster for the PCs of those days)

Just a piece of trivia, in memory of days long gone,
   -Eyal


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