Enlightenment on GNOME and X11

(Ignore the title pun, g33ks) Confuzzled by the Linux/Unix desktop’s workings and design? Wanna know more about GNOME 2.4? Ars Technica has got you covered like a jimmy hat. They get all under the hood, then all above the hood, then they wax that thing up and down. What a (popular) technical article should be.