From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 7:11: 6 2003 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 A262937B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:11:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 971EC43FBD for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801F49F36; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:11:01 +0100 (MET) Received: from kvist.cs.umu.se (kvist.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834B69F33; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:10:58 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:10:57 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund To: Kenzo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manufacturing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 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 On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Kenzo wrote: [big snip] > He is more geared toward a linux box with redhat, but I would rather > setup a computer with Freebsd that would do all the trick. FreeBSD don't do any tricks at all, it's quite boring as a matter of fact, because it works. No blue screens to spice up ones life. :-) > what x-window manager should I use? I know KDE uses alot of > resources, but what about gnome? If you should only run a web-browser I wouldn't go for either KDE or Gnome. There are more light weight window managers that use less resources than these two wm's. Mybe not as nice looking, but working. > what should I use for web browser? If the pages they surf are only internal, i.e. they can not surf to pages which requires plugins, advanced HTML (not supported by all browsers) and such, you should go for a light weight browser, i.e. not mozilla. Some people on the list have mentioned Phoenix, saying it's a non-bloated browser if my memory serves me correct. Good luck! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message