I would like to spend some time talking about a subject that is near and dear to my heart – the GUI Interface to the Linux Engine. In today’s computing environment, Linux is usually used as a platform. That is, most Linux implementations primarily consist of user applications. They tend to stay out of the kernel. Why, you ask? Because hardware is rapidly changing and it is much easier to port user applications as opposed to kernel changes. Also, it is much easier to debug user applications. And lastly, user applications usually do not crash the kernel. Thus such systems are inherently more reliable.