Switching Desktop Environments
Red Hat Linux 6 ships with several desktop environments—also called X-Window shells—besides Gnome. These desktop environments are actually programs written to run on top of the older, command-line Linux. They launch automatically when Linux starts. By and large, you won't know that Linux is running under the shell, any more than Microsoft Windows users know that DOS is running. In addition, with the release of Red Hat Linux 6, so many features are built into the Gnome desktop environment that you may not ever need to leave the graphical environment.
Gnome is the default desktop environment and the one that Red Hat Linux 6 automatically activates. It is also clearly an extremely rich and robust visual environment. ...
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