Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 06:39:59 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Starting to code Message-ID: <20001019063959.A19817@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <39EDEA94.BAE8F635@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600 References: <39EB3051.58E631CA@confusion.net> <39EBE9FE.9CFB1373@softweyr.com> <39ED1AE2.4914EE6C@confusion.net> <39EDEA94.BAE8F635@softweyr.com>
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[ -hackers => -chat ] On Wed 2000-10-18 (12:23), Wes Peters wrote: > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > Laurence Berland wrote: > > > > > > > > What's a good place to start if you're a university student with limited > > > > hardware who wants to jump in and get going with the FreeBSD code. > > > > Right now I've got a PPro 200 with 32 MB of ram and lots of disk space > > > > (~50 gigs). 10 gigs or so is used by FreeBSD-Stable. I'm thinking of > > > > tossing Current on also, and maybe making the cvs repo a separate > > > > partition so I can share it between current and stable. > > > > > > I love it when people call a PPro 200 with 32 MB "limited hardware". My > > > first Free/NetBSD machine was a 386/40 with 8MB RAM and a 340 MB disk, and > > > it was state of the art except for lack of a CD-ROM drive. > > > > > I thought it was more than fast enough, and for most things it is, but > > KDE manages to crawl nonetheless... > > WindowMaker. ;^) I've recently discovered pwm, and I must say I can't imagine going back to anything else. The key feature is windows that share a common frame. I have three Eterms connected to the same frame with tabs at the top of the frame to choose the Eterm I want to see. This works even better for Netscape - I have about 12 or so Netscapes connected in one frame, and I just use meta-W to close ones I'm finished with and meta-N to add a new Netscape to the frame. No new windows rushing to the top in some weird place - all Netscape windows share the same mostly-maximised frame. I can shortcut with ctrl-shift-x where x is a single numeral to the number of the tab, or use ctrl-shift-N and ctrl-shift-P to move to the next and previous tabs respectively. Netscape even seems to crash less, but that's probably just wishful thinking. It _is_ chewing a whole 1.7 megs SIZE and 1.3 RES, though. Bad bad pwm, with quite a few frames and a number of tabs in each, all over about 6 workspaces. And I haven't manage to crash it yet, so I'm quite happy. Check out ports/x11-wm/pwm sometime. See the home page http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/ for what passes for "themes". (: End of advertisement. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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