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What's the difference between a "console" and a "terminal"?
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Run 'apropos console; man tty; man pty'.
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What is "Getty" and "virtual terminal"?
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Run 'apropos getty; man -a *getty' (exit the last command with plain "q" for the next manual page).
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What is "UXTerm", "XTerm" and "Unicode"?
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Run 'apropos terminal' and pick one, say 'man xterm'.
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What are the differnces between "LX Terminal", "GNOME-Terminal", "Xfce4-Terminal", and "Konsole"?
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Check their manual pages /usr/share/doc/* info or run them.
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What is "DPI", "EDID" and "Xorg.conf"?
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Dots Per Inch, Extended Display Identification Data and 'man Xorg; man Xserver'.
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What is "TTY"?
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See 1st q.
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What is the difference between "WM", "Tiling Window Manager" and "DE"?
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DE means Desktop Environment. WM means Window Manager. For more on
tiling affliction please see Wikipedia.
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What is "GDM"?
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See 'apropos gdm; man gdm'.
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What is "tasksel"?
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See 'man tasksel'.
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What is the difference between "X", "Xorg" and "X server"?
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See q5.
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What is "El Torito"?
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It's like Judge Dredd's Double Whammy:
for when one just doesn't cut it.
(Or see the 'net for CDROM boot standards, 2"88 floppies and such.)