Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:44:36 -0700 (PDT) From: peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, David Lodeiro <dlodeiro@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop Environment Message-ID: <20030617174436.22944.qmail@web14601.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200306171037.30793.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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Just for reference; the link list below give a decent review of several: Hope this helps. http://www.plig.org/xwinman/intro.html Pete --- Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:26 am, David Lodeiro > wrote: > > What would be the fastest, most efficient desktop > environment to use > > on freebsd? > > Don't confuse "desktop environment" with a window > manager. Blackbox uses > very few resources, so on machines with few > resources it will be > faster, but it is not a desktop environment. > > The actual window managers of KDE and GNOME are very > small and very > fast. They just seem slow because you're running a > desktop on top of > them. You can use Blackbox as the window manager for > KDE, but it will > be just as "slow" as if you used the native "kwin". > If you've got less > than 64MB of memory then you may want to stick with > a small window > manager, but from my experience with more than 64MB, > once you have the > environment started you'll see no speed differences > between a plain > window manager and a full desktop. > > Efficiency depends on how you work. If you're a > classic UNIX user who > thinks that the only purpose of X is so you can have > multiple terminals > on the screen at once, then by all means stick with > a small window > manager. > > p.s. On this dual-boot Win2k/FreeBSD workstation, I > once did some > informal time comparisons. From bootup to login to > the final rendering > of my homepage in a browser, FreeBSD/KDE/Konqueror > was faster than > Win2K/Windows/IExplorer. > > David > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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