Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 22:41:56 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: FreeBSD chat list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <19971201224156.35000@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971201095326.13499B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Mon, Dec 01, 1997 at 10:12:58AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130171619.24568A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971201095326.13499B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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(redirected to -chat) As John Fieber wrote: > > Speaking of an out of box experience, KDE works quite nicely. > I'm not too enthusiastic about the implementation, at this stage > at least. The basic required processes suck up unreasonable > amounts of RAM and my X server bloats to almost twice the size I > usually see it at. In the end, my 64MB machine feels like it has > about 32MB. Ain't it a nice Windoze emulation? ``We promise to make your machine as slow as it were under Windoze.'' :-) <personal opinion> I personally find CDE (and Motif in general, for that matter) rather ugly-looking. While i'm a long-term fvwm user, i would certainly rather agree to use qvwm on my desktop than i would volunteerely use CDE or a lookalike of it on any machine i'm using for daily work. If they hadn't broken cut&paste that badly, i would be impressed by the simplicity and yet prettiness of the OpenView look&feel. (Of course, not by their code quality. :-] I've once tried to port OpenView to 386BSD, but gave up. Others seem to have succeeded, and i appreciate their work.) </personal opinion> -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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