Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:12:58 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> Cc: "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971201095326.13499B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130171619.24568A-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Alex wrote: > <plug> > Speaking of an out of box experience, KDE works quite nicely. It's kinda > a CDE/Motif meets Win95 type thing, with a bunch of little applets for I'm not too enthusiastic about the implementation, at this stage at least. The basic required processes suck up unreasonable amounts of RAM and my X server bloats to almost twice the size I usually see it at. In the end, my 64MB machine feels like it has about 32MB. I think it would be nearly intolerable on a 32MB or less machine. Not so good for the out-of-box-experience. -john
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