Linux Desktop

Linux runs with two major desktop systems: KDE and Gnome. Each of these systems may be run with a choice of X Windows managers. The window manager and the desktop environment are customizable to a significant degree. Thus, there is no typical Linux look-and-feel, although the default look-and-feel of the commercial distributions resembles that of Windows prior to Windows XP.

Each desktop system contains many applications. Ours ships with multiple GUI programs in these categories:

  • Applications

  • Games

  • Graphics

  • Internet

  • Multimedia

  • Settings

  • Utilities

Red Hat Linux 7.1 distributes KDE and Gnome desktop environments. The choice is ours at installation. We may install both environments. The beauty of this is that the applications that were written ...

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