Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 07:46:59 -0500 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI question. Message-ID: <02030107465904.24952@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <200203010532.AAA17582@alpha.vaxxine.com> References: <200203010532.AAA17582@alpha.vaxxine.com>
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I use FreeBSD both on a desktop machine and on a firewall box for our home LAN. I started out with Gnome but had ill-luck with it and switched to KDE for my desktop machine. For what I want (web browsing, e-mail, etc) KDE works fine. As a technical writer, I use StarOffice, because people want documents in MSWord format and made to look "pretty". I still occassionally run Windows for games, though if I can ever get Quake III for Linux to run under FBSD that may come to a sudden halt. For the firewall box, command line. X isn't even installed. Now if only I could find an old amber-tone monitor to go with it, I'd be truly happy... Marci On Friday 01 March 2002 12:33 am, Paul C. Boyle wrote GUI question.: | I just want to get an idea of what people are using for a desktop GUI. | Myself I prefer KDE. | I have had it since the beta came with SUSE 5.2. | That was also my first crack at #nix's. | | This posting is mainly directed to the OLDIES. | There is only a NEWBIE list so I am posting here. | Do you use FreeBSD as a desktop workstation or do you still clean windows. | Does FreeBSD do everything you need for a workstation? | Personaly I think KDE is elegant. And I can't see waisting a 17" flat | screen monitor on just a black and white console. | I mean if you have the hardware, use it. | I do use windows to play a few games now and then but if FreeBSD could do | that I'd be a happy man. | | I see in the news that IBM is supporting LInux and maybe HP is as well. | Why do you suppose they overlooked FreeBSD. | Not that I would want a corporate stering committe, that could compromise | quality for deadlines. | | What do you think? | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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