From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 19:22:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6069916A4DD for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:22:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE8D43D4C for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:22:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd.ph@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so3482872uge for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:22:16 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=r7YS8bmLc43kILYDBXrr03LLT/VLD0tMMtJ7PS32F6uB22fZnzriYVQ5bc1inAbZd9aSH2eIm7IbRQawZOPPCRNnntXwcJMsZkWmW1LcEjaMV51f95S8x4+6WQWrAJ6ZYkXR1VXg9xGWjGNHoNgA0xVbhjkI+8VHD9SiIZESyvw= Received: by 10.78.195.9 with SMTP id s9mr3415154huf; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.141.18 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:22:16 +0800 From: "jan gestre" To: "Joshua Lewis" In-Reply-To: <20060726082333.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.dba6f17e66.wbe@email.secureserver.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20060726082333.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.dba6f17e66.wbe@email.secureserver.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing windows XP at home. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:22:18 -0000 On 7/26/06, Joshua Lewis wrote: > > > I have a hard question to ask and I realize that there are a thousand > answers to this question. > > > > I am replacing my XP system with a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I finished > installing it last night and cvsuped. Now I need to choose a window > manager. > > > > There are what seems like hundreds of different WM in the ports > collection and there is no way I will be able to find the time to read > them all and get any kind of good idea on what each one does. > > > > I am hoping a few people form the list could e-mail me what they like > and for what reason. > > > > I want something lean and fast but I want to have my cake and eat it > to because I do want something that is not strait up ugly and is > functional. > > > > KDE seems like it is bloated so I was considering Gnome. I have also > been reading about enlightenment and it sounds interesting. I have > looked into Fluxbox and it also seems like it would do the trick. > > > > Would I be better off just going with Gnome or KDE? I realize once I > start installing apps that I will probably wind up installing > something that uses Gnome or KDE libraries so I am going to wind up > bloating my system any ways right? > > > > gnome and kde are both bloated, why not xfce or fluxbox, they are both > lean and fast. >