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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


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