From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 6 07:15:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0751065670 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 07:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [89.206.35.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38328FC12 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 07:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q667FAAL024318; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:15:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q667FA3L024315; Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:15:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:15:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Polytropon In-Reply-To: <20120706084311.da1e7494.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: References: <2131197703.385287.1341514811190.JavaMail.apache@nm31.abv.bg> <20120706084311.da1e7494.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:15:10 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Ivan Ivanov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hi i want to ask a question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 07:15:36 -0000 > 1. You won't be able to build things from source on that > machine. Consider using packages for installation, or a > second system to build and export (via NFS) the data required. You can but... too slow > 3. For using your applications within the GUI, choose a > good window manager, e. g. FVWM or XFCE 3 (not 4!), or > IceWM or Blackbox or olvwm or something comparable. You > need to try which one fits your needs. Maybe a tiling > window manager would be even better -- but I can't recommend > one, because their magic didn't open up to my ignorant > mind yet. :-) Actually everything should work fine with window managers you mentioned. The real problems are "modern" programs like firefox.