Seen on Zdnet: "Will the latest Ubuntu distro finally provide a mainstream Windows alternative?"

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:57:18 +0800
"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> > No, in 1997 you got X with a bunch of window managers to choose
> > from. But the installation was a bit more difficult than today...
> 
> 
> And the main use of X would have been running several copies of xterm so
> you could use the command line interface....

I thought it still was??

* looks around innocently *

;-)

Peter