From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 06:05:50 2005 Return-Path: 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 0402016A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:05:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F9943D46 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:05:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.222.227] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.43) id 1D4C8B-0002jJ-AP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:05:47 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> References: <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> Message-Id: From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:05:46 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.161.222.227 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hobbiton.shire.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.1+cvs (built Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:44:05 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hobbiton.shire.net) Subject: Re: Window managers (was: Different OS's? Marketshare) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:05:50 -0000 On Feb 23, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > >> Possibly. It could also be something primitive like twm, of course. > > I meant whatever is used most on commercial UNIX configurations, like > Solaris or whatever I'd be likely to encounter on a large site. > > It appears that CDE is a strictly commercial package, so I won't be > using that. Someone I know works at SUN. He said most of the people there that he knows have ditched CDE and use Gnome :-( and I think SUN may be adopting Gnome or one of the other ones to replace CDE Chad > > How hard is it to _uninstall_ window managers and desktops? > > Confronted with bewildering choices, I have Xfce downloading now; it > looked clean in the screen shots and apparently it doesn't require many > resources. > > KDE looks awfully heavy and adolescent and I don't know that I'm > interested in something that tries so hard to be like Windows.