From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 5 5:34:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FB237B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F46843EC5 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 05:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 31476 invoked by uid 417); 5 Dec 2002 13:34:14 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 5 Dec 2002 13:34:14 -0000 Received: from localhost ([216.194.21.207]) by softhome.net with esmtp; Thu, 05 Dec 2002 06:33:43 -0700 Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CDEF844E; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 06:36:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 06:36:56 -0500 From: Joshua Lee To: Haikal Saadh Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A FreeBSD User Reviews Mandrake. Let the flames flow. Message-ID: <20021205113656.GA1023@softhome.net> References: <20021204131506.GB4377@gothmog.gr> <000301c29b9d$35adab60$9802a8c0@warhawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000301c29b9d$35adab60$9802a8c0@warhawk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:58:22PM +1000, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > I haven't installed Mandrake Linux lately, but are you sure you had > > to install both KDE and Gnome? As a matter of fact, do you really > > *need* X11 at all? I don't install anything X11-related to > > machines that are relatively slow or have limited resources. > > > I installed KDE in case I didn't like gnome. You might want to try something that's more lightweight than either GNOME or KDE, like one of the blackbox clones or Window Maker. Though you might want to install some GNOME libraries, especially gtk, for those GNOME applications that need them. Of course, if you *really* want to have X perform better in a low resource situation, you'll need an OS with a decent VM, like FreeBSD. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message