Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:51:59 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: win managers Message-ID: <000a01bfda49$5c3db940$56dda4d8@beefstew> References: <000901bfd8e7$dd6768d0$1ae27ad1@beefstew> <394E6D2C.534F303@acuson.com>
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> WindowMaker is easy. It does have good documentation, but it is out of > date. However, updated docs are being written as we speak. Informal > support is readily available. It is a different way of working from some > other window managers, so it may take a bit of getting used to. tried windowmaker - it's seemed to me "next generation" or rather - sophisticated in the way it operated. some unix gurus at my locale linux group are gung-ho about it, but I haven't taken to it yet. > Documentation is the big bugaboo of Open Source. Open Source developers > loathe writing documentation, to the point that I actually saw a man > page announce "this man page is no longer being maintained, see the info > pages", and then the corresponding info page was a copy of the man page! it would be great if every package could have its own O'reilly book. my big "thing is step bystep instructions. eg. I read the whole chap. in the Complete FreeBSD on PPP. Admittingly, i didn't understand all of it and was still searching for: 1. do this 2. do this 3....ect. Finally I found an inconspicuous how-to on the web that said: replace three fields in ppp.config w/your isp data. then #ppp, then dial papchap - 15 secs i was connected. (the only thing not mentioned was to chmod ppp.config (700) soit's executable). Of course I'm not knocking the deeper understanding afforded by the book. > > > David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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