From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 6:35:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host2.hostmatters.com (host2.hostmatters.com [209.239.36.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B723C37B71B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 06:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@cahostnet.com) Received: from nhqadmin17 (224host128.redcross.org [162.6.224.128]) by host2.hostmatters.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2TEZND24811; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:35:23 -0500 Message-ID: <001501c0b85e$1e714430$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> From: "Ben" To: "Gerald T. Freymann" , References: <00b201c0b85c$9c261f60$0f01a8c0@phantom> Subject: Re: Gnome or KDE desktop? Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:39:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes you can install both and flip back and fourth. KDE is a memory hog but I like it. If you use it make sure you have lots of memory. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald T. Freymann" To: Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:29 AM Subject: Gnome or KDE desktop? > After working at the command line in FreeBSD (since Freebsd 2.2.5 days) for > the last 5 or 6 years, I finally decided to load FreeBSD 4 (4.2Release for > now) on one of my home peecee's and try out this X-Windows thing. ;-) > > I have the X-Windows server running and to say the least the desktop is > rather boring. > > I've heard and read lots about the GNome desktop, and a bit about the KDE > desktop... > > Is there a preference out there? can I install both and flip back and forth > between them? > > Just curious which route would be the better to go first... (I'd like to > see both actually). > > -Gerry > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message