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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:20:18 +0200
From:      Roger Olofsson <raggen@passagen.se>
To:        Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Gnome & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <46CC2A02.1030203@passagen.se>
In-Reply-To: <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com>
References:  <545941.20720.qm@web88311.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

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Michael S skrev:
> Good day all,
> 
> I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I
> am  considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used
> for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway.
> The reason is that most of my favorite applications
> use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used
> to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I
> wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt)
> by not installing KDE.
> I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it
> polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at
> all?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael
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A while back on this list I read about fluxbox so I decided to try it 
out. I like it very much, it's very lightweight and very flexible. It's 
in the ports tree if you want to have a look.





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