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Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 includes XFree86 4.1.0. Here again, there are no surprises. Slackware Linux 8.0 also supports XFree86 4.1.0; Red Hat Linux 7.3, meanwhile, supports a slightly later version of XFree86, namely 4.2.0.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 also includes the GNOME and KDE desktop environment, as do Red Hat Linux and Slackware Linux. Debian ships version 1.4.0 of GNOME, and version 2.2 of KDE. These are slightly older than the versions that ship with Red Hat Linux 7.3, but are concurrent with Slackware Linux 8.0.
Probably the only significant way in which Debian's X installation differs from Red Hat's and Slackware's is how the desktop manager is started. (Recall from Chapters 3 through 5 that the X desktop manager is the graphical login prompt that lets users log into X instead of the console.) There's more on this later in the section "Debian GNU/Linux Idiosyncrasies."
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