From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 19 16:51:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A14237B81B for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 216-164-221-86.s86.tnt4.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([216.164.221.86] helo=beefstew) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 134BK3-0005F6-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:51:19 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01bfda49$5c3db940$56dda4d8@beefstew> From: "leegold" To: References: <000901bfd8e7$dd6768d0$1ae27ad1@beefstew> <394E6D2C.534F303@acuson.com> Subject: Re: win managers Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:51:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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