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Controversial Cosmologist Fred Hoyle Dies At 86
MikeCamel writes: "The BBC announced today that Fred Hoyle, astronomer, science populariser and science fiction writer, died yesterday, aged 86. He is best known for having coined the phrase 'Big Bang,' though he was actually an opponent of the idea, and advocated the 'steady state' theory. He also believed that life didn't start on Earth, but that we were 'seeded' from outer space."
farrellj adds: "Hoyle was famous for a number of things, inventing the term 'Big Bang,' figuring out how stars create the heavier elements, and his most controversial, the idea that the seeds of life on earth came from space. He was also a noted Science Fiction writer, with many books, sometimes co-authored with his son, Geoffrey. We have lost one of the more original thinkers in the field of Astrophysics. You can read more at the NY Times site. (free reg. required, yadda yadda)"
Im currently in the process of moving my private network to Linux. The only real experince i have with unixes, is Ive used it a bit in my job as a programmer(i just quit my job, to complete my Bachlor in comp. Science(will take a while, ive only got the first two semesters, which ive got through another Danish comp. education)), but it was mostly Java work. Hence i coded a server on the system, not really digging into anything really OS related issues(the only REAL hands on expirence I got from it, was setting up java+tomcat on a unixbox). And on my personal network, Ive just completet setting(/reading :o) up the network related stuff. So i ping the world, u know. And Ive really havent gotten to study the X architecture yet. So, I have a question...
Is all windowmanagers compatible through X or what? The main reason im shifting to 100% *nix enviroment is that I really dig the though of software being open(and FREE). And I would like to get involved in some OpenSource project down the road, but will one have to port a GUI between n different windowhandlers?
I would like to think that you just use some sort of std. X interface, that all the windowhandlers can implement. But i also know that Gnome uses all sorts of custom stuff, glib or something right?