Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:28:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Henrik Johansson <f94jnh@student.udd.htu.se> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980217122515.12338M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980217192946.0092dbe0@student.udd.htu.se>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Henrik Johansson wrote: > I´m thinking of buying ver 2.2.5 on CDROM. I have previously tried both > FreeBSD ver 2.1 and Red Hat Linux 4.1. For a curious "normal" user like myself > I thougt the Linux´s X-desktop was easier to use because it seemed to be > much more > pre-configured than that of FreeBSD ver 2.1. (Both were different versions > of Fvwm). > > Has FreeBSD caught up since? I´m not a programmer who likes to start off > with manually > editing configuration files here and there, but would like at least some > applications > readily available on the desktop......... FreeBSD hasn't changed it's X config, AFAIK. We tend to keep down the amount of stuff that's in the base distribution because it adds bloat to those not as X-capable. This also allows you to install exactly what you want and not have to pull out the garbae you don't use, and X apps tend to be pretty big. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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