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Subject: Default gnome configuration
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From: "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com>
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 	I just this weekend put together 2 boxes for work. One was a FreeBSD
	3.2-STABLE machine, and one was a RedHat 6.0 machine. Why 2 you ask?
	Let's just say that the windozze support people at work have discovered
	that there _might_ be something else ut there, and i wnated them to see
	both Linux, _and_ FreeBSD.

	But I digress. Here is what I find stange the RedHat box by default has
	a very nice gnome environemnt (assuming you like GUI tools). The
	FreeBSD machine had a pretty strange default gnome seup, even using
	afterstep, instead of Enlightenment as the default window manager. I
	was particulary suprised at this, given that the new 3.2 install
	program even offers you the choice of gnom as a default destop. Now I
	grant you if you _don't_ choose this you get a different window
	manager. Still it seems we may be missing the boat here for
	desktop/client machines. I believe that the gnome (or KDE) environment
	will be an important part of wining the desktop back.

	So, could we perahps build a little nicer set of defaults for gnome?


-- 
Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    843-745-3154
Westvaco
Charleston SC.
-- 
Windows 98: n.
	useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
	a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
	originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
	company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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(c) 1999 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.


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