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Desktop GUI – Quick Clarification

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“Lets Start with Xorg via gentoo documentation The X.org project
created and maintains a freely redistributable, open-source
implementation of the X11 system. It is an open source X11-based
desktop infrastructure.

“Xorg provides an interface between your hardware and the
graphical software you want to run. Besides that, Xorg is also
fully network-aware, meaning you are able to run an application on
one system while viewing it on a different one.

“So in a nutshell, it allows you to have a Desktop
Environment/Window Manager.”

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