From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 14:04:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00684 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:04:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00493 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA12448; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:28:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:28:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Henrik Johansson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980217192946.0092dbe0@student.udd.htu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA00506 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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