From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 16:09:12 2004 Return-Path: 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 74F6416A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:09:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rtl.org (rtl-3.i2k.com [63.94.12.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B624C43D39 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:09:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jstewart@rtl.org) Received: from mis3c.rtl.lan (rtl-2.i2k.com [63.94.12.206]) by mail.rtl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DC230ABB for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:05:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mis3c.rtl.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6EFC6129361; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:08:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:08:03 -0400 From: Jason Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040726160803.GI19131@rtl.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040726154502.88509.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040726154502.88509.qmail@web41006.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Whats the fastest Windows 2000 like Window Manager ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:09:12 -0000 On 26/07/04 08:45 -0700, DK wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed FreeBSD v4.10 > > I would like to install a basic FAST Windows 2000 like Window Manager that "ONLY" has: > - Basic FAST GUI > - MS Notepad like Editor > - MS Windows Explorer like File Manager > > I am setting this up as a test web server with Apache etc... > > I want very BASIC Windows like GUI with a GUI Text Editor(NOT VI, more like Notepad) to edit > configuration files etc AND a Windows Explorer like File Manager to move files easily around & > from the CD(ie. NOT command line stuff!) Windows 2000 is not "Basic". If you run twm with xfm or something similar you will be dissapointed when you compare it to w2k. Fluxbox is a good, extremely lightwieght window manager. It's very basic, as in no eye candy, but it's nice to older, less powerful machines. For file managing, you might want to look at gentoo (no, not the Linux dist.) file manager, tkdesk, or rox-filer. > ----------------- > My System: > Pentium 200Mhz > 128MB SDRAM > 16MB PCI Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT > 10 GIG HD > ----------------- > > I have Windows 2000 installed on the Primary Boot partition & that runs VERY fast > (compared to FreeBSD + KDE or GNOME) > X11 can be a big hog sometimes. You will not get a window manager (actually desktop environment) that looks and acts like windows (i.e. KDE) to run quickly on this type of hardware. I have a PII 400Mhz with 196MB RAM running fluxbox that performs quite snappy. I wouldn't dare put gnome or KDE on it though. Regards, Jason