From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 21:52:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1783B37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:52:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13805.mail.yahoo.com (web13805.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B96C443E4A for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021218053440.68128.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [169.232.227.96] by web13805.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:34:40 PST Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:34:40 -0800 (PST) From: mike mcgranahan Reply-To: mikemcg@ucla.edu Subject: Re: Going from Windows to X - suggestions To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20021218021835.GB311@vectors.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Install KDE and/or gnome. Your call. I'm new to FreeBSD myself, having used blackbox window manager on a P133 with 48MB of RAM. Though it's not impossible, with only 16MB or RAM, GNOME or KDE would probably be pushing it; you'd be using your swap slice continuously. I recommend blackbox, though it's not as full-featured as the above. However, it's quite easy to set up. As for email, I've heard Evolution is nice (I'm anticipating Thunderbird from the Mozilla Phoenix team). As for web browsers, Phoenix or Galeon are best. File manager... I don't know. Mike (new to FreeBSD) (Darned "Reply All"!) __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message