From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 2:59:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B95737B416 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 02:59:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc3-card3-0-cust122.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.254.251.122] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=exim) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 1668cf-0006se-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:59:25 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1668a2-000Jm0-00; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:56:42 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:56:42 +0000 From: setantae To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120105642.GA75918@rhadamanth> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120023948.A92409@xor.obsecurity.org> <00df01c171b0$2a938be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00df01c171b0$2a938be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:43:11AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Kris writes: > > > This isn't a fair statement; there are many > > many stable window managers on FreeBSD. Even > > though KDE and GNOME (allegedly) aren't stable, > > there are lots of remaining alternatives before > > you have to resort to the "native, command= > > line mode". > > Which alternatives provide both the stability of the native CLI mode (which is, > after all, a major selling point for FreeBSD) and the functional and ergonomic > equivalent of Microsoft Windows? Well, I was hoping to stay away from advocacy, but since you asked for an example : blackbox. For one. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message