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From: peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Desktop Environment
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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
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