Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 17:34:49 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: MET <met@uberstats.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE vs. GNOME || GNOME vs. KDE Message-ID: <20020803173449.A340@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <001c01c23b06$3f9e0b80$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>; from met@uberstats.com on Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0400 References: <001c01c23b06$3f9e0b80$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL>
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On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0400, MET wrote: > So what's the big difference? How would one go about choosing which to > run? > > - Matthew Try them both and see which one you like best, is probably the best advice. Some might find KDE a bit too Windows-like, but it does come with a pretty reasonable set of applications and utilities, and doesn't intrude too much -- just the one bar at the bottom of the screen, the way I have it set up. The last time I used Gnome was a couple of years ago on a RedHat 6 box; it crashed on me almost daily so I went back to WindowMaker and haven't used it since... I imagine it provides pretty much the same functionality as KDE though. KDE & Gnome are both pretty heavyweight -- I'll hazard a guess and say that anything much less than a 700MHz machine with 256MB of RAM and a decent graphics adapter won't really be up to the task of running them. And don't forget that you can run Gnome or KDE apps without actually using either of them as your window manager. As long as the necessary libraries are installed most of the apps will run just fine. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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