From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 21:58:36 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 9C70216A4DA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:58:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E444543D49 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:58:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E10D917D0 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:58:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:58:38 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: BKZACJhFQpcs+SlZ10tzLeHhwV5wMXF1P9qm+a9/2zpK 1153951114 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5581670B for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:58:34 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:58:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060726082333.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.dba6f17e66.wbe@email.secureserver.net> <44C7C4F3.8080400@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <44C7C4F3.8080400@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607262258.32825.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> 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 21:58:36 -0000 On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:39, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Performance is all relative though, based on what your machine's > speed is, how much RAM it has, disk space, etc. I personally abandoned > Gnome and KDE approximately 1-2 years ago because I found compiling the > packages to be too much of a pain and take too much time to accomplish. I rebuild KDE while I'm running KDE, I've never had a problem doing that. It take about 1 minute of my time, and it doesn't prevent me watching video or burning DVDs or any of the normal things.