Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:24:42 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different OS's? Marketshare Message-ID: <18910291972.20050224162442@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <200502240337.44986.m.hauber@mchsi.com> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAkUru9e0Xgkm1jphiEj0758KAAAAQAAAAVNKPkcwi5Uq3w6wWDp/biAEAAAAA@video-phones-evdo.com> <1723646570.20050224064608@wanadoo.fr> <200502240337.44986.m.hauber@mchsi.com>
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Mike Hauber writes: > Hmmm... I tend to view a wm about the same way I view win.exe > (not in the disrespectful way, of course) in the respect that > it's real purpose is to provide a pretty point and click menu > system (which I'm not knocking). It's very usefull and > palletable to some, usually not a necessity, and downright > apalling to others. I just want a X window system that will give me some experience with UNIX GUIs. I don't actually intend to run one on my production server, but since this machine (the one I'm discussing now) will become a sort of test machine, I can afford to take more chances with it. > I mentioned that blackbox is what I use for administrative logins > because you have to build it from the ground up (not in any > literal sense (ie, not from a wm-developers point of view), but > from the wm-user's view (for instance, I find the default menu > (the purpose of the wm) to be pretty bare for my taste and > therefore needs to be customized (built up). > > Make sense? Hope I wasn't any more confusing. :) I suppose it will make more sense as I gather more experience. I haven't found any comprehensive and succinct documentation on X (the classic problem of documentation in computerland). -- Anthony
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