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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:11:08 +0200
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Chris <eagletree@hughes.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)
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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:58:21 -0700, Chris <eagletree@hughes.net> wrote:
> 1. Taking the specs into account, what is the window manager that
> will provide the closest match to the Apple desktop for mouse ops,
> browsing files/directories, and editing text files. I suppose I should
> add running Firefox (or a reasonable similar browser that will
> render HTML and execute Javascript identically).

Maybe XFCE 4 is a good choice:

http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/design-your-own-desktop-with-xfce-44-part-2/



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