UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

May be a simple question --->whats the difference between Xterm and console?

xterm is a terminal emulator for the X Window system.
Console is the connected to the console port of the server.

Think of any terminal emulator (such as xterm) as a remote window into the system. console is a physical connection local to the system. On most servers, console is the only place you could login as root. If you ever shutdown a server by both methods, you will note that on console, you will see everything happening down to the ok prompt. On any remote terminal emulation, you will be disconnected before the server is all the way down.

Wow,

I was also looking for something like this.
Can you give me pointer to location where i find this in detail.

The man page of xterm is pretty complicated.