Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:54:13 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila <juksi@iname.com> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies Message-ID: <XFMail.000418105413.juksi@iname.com> In-Reply-To: <38FBA549.1F8FA6D5@acuson.com>
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On 17-Apr-00 David Johnson wrote: > > I would vote for WindowMaker. It is the only window manager I've found > that behaves with FreeBSD that is not also at the same time drab, boring > and user infriendly. I have not tried XFCE since I had to use CDE at > work :-( until I broke down and installed WindowMaker in my home > directory :-) I do use KDE at home though, and I wonder about the > reference to "amateurish". I find it to be quite professional, although > it doesn't always play well with non-Linux systems. > Been there, seen that, scrapped that. WindowMaker is Too Heavy. This is on Cel366@458, 64M: last pid: 574; load averages: 0.10, 0.16, 0.09 up 0+00:41:02 10:43:39 30 processes: 2 running, 28 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 29M Active, 13M Inact, 14M Wired, 3012K Cache, 14M Buf, 540K Free Swap: 200M Total, 200M Free 313 sjuke 28 0 5796K 2012K RUN 0:03 0.00% 0.00% xfce 312 sjuke -6 0 2744K 1364K piperd 0:02 0.00% 0.00% xfwm And the reason I'd vote xfce for the default: It is amazingly easy to configure, so a totally newbies would feel comfortable with it. @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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