From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 12:19:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC4516A4CE for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:19:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3E643D5E for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:19:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:1781 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AegcS-0006ru-4K; Thu, 08 Jan 2004 12:19:04 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:12:24 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDNN87WF; Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:11:24 -0800 From: Johnson David To: Lute Mullenix Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:17:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB467F55F@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> <200401081043.18012.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20040108132134.K94362@agnes> In-Reply-To: <20040108132134.K94362@agnes> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401081217.06498.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AegcS-0006ru-4K*Wn5jSSKXRrk* cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME is poor, is it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:19:22 -0000 On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:00 pm, Lute Mullenix wrote: > The point I'm trying to make here is chances are your first install > of FBSD is most likely just for playing with, so play. You may end up > running Gnome or KDE, but more likely you will end up using one of > the other WMs and really setting things up the way you like them. > Heck you may even end up using twm, but I doubt that. Anyway, go to > the ports collection, check out your options in the x11-wm dir, there > are enough in there to keep you busy for quit some time. In other words, while all the Linux distributions are busy trying to figure out what desktop to officially support, at FreeBSD we're asking the question "why the heck do we want a default desktop anyway?" > This ain't Windows, so why try to make it act like Windows? Oh man, I resent that! If they were like Windows I wouldn't touch either with a ten foot pole! Windowmaker, as a plain vanilla window manager, has more functionality than the Windows "desktop". David