[nycbug-talk] BSD on a desktop

[G.Rosamond]

On Jul 30, 2004, at 9:36 PM, Dru wrote:

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> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, G.Rosamond wrote:
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>> I'm working on a outline of making FreeBSD a useful desktop.  It's 
>> aimed at those

>> <snip>
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> Out of curiosity, why the focus on the light-weight window managers? I 
> was an XFCE fan myself, until I could afford a PC with enough RAM and 
> CPU to comfortably run KDE. Build KDE's metaport and you already have 
> 85% of the desktop stuff you'd ever want to use...

Of course. . .the angle I'm thinking is the everyday Unix-like system 
user who wants to *try* a BSD, and I feel like KDE would be cheating. . 
.<g> Also, this is for someone without the necessary hardware. . .ie, 
second machine. . .

And I'd hate KDE. . .way too clunky for me. . .I intend to provide some 
useful temples, including .rc files. ..

> As for fave utilities: gimp, firefox, OpenOffice (only for 
> compatability with coworkers), Abiword (because I prefer something 
> more lightweight), numlockx (because it sucks to have to press the 
> numlocks key), xmms, ogle, gkrellm, and scrot. Plus all my network 
> toys, but not every desktop user is a network geek...
>

Good list. . .thanks. .  .

g