Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:05:46 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Window managers (was: Different OS's? Marketshare) Message-ID: <bed98d746fc14f15d5b700bbea78bba2@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAkUru9e0Xgkm1jphiEj0758KAAAAQAAAAVNKPkcwi5Uq3w6wWDp/biAEAAAAA@video-phones-evdo.com> <1505159320.20050223203426@wanadoo.fr> <20050223222900.X5778@frambozen.monochrome.org> <20050224035935.GI36248@wantadilla.lemis.com> <599586665.20050224065658@wanadoo.fr>
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On Feb 23, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > >> Possibly. It could also be something primitive like twm, of course. > > I meant whatever is used most on commercial UNIX configurations, like > Solaris or whatever I'd be likely to encounter on a large site. > > It appears that CDE is a strictly commercial package, so I won't be > using that. Someone I know works at SUN. He said most of the people there that he knows have ditched CDE and use Gnome :-( and I think SUN may be adopting Gnome or one of the other ones to replace CDE Chad > > How hard is it to _uninstall_ window managers and desktops? > > Confronted with bewildering choices, I have Xfce downloading now; it > looked clean in the screen shots and apparently it doesn't require many > resources. > > KDE looks awfully heavy and adolescent and I don't know that I'm > interested in something that tries so hard to be like Windows.
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