Re: Desktop Environment

From: peter lageotakes (plageotakes_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/17/03

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    Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:44:36 -0700 (PDT)
To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, David Lodeiro <dlodeiro@optusnet.com.au>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Just for reference; the link list below give a decent
    review of several: Hope this helps.

    http://www.plig.org/xwinman/intro.html

    Pete
    --- Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote:
    > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 06:26 am, David Lodeiro
    > wrote:
    > > What would be the fastest, most efficient desktop
    > environment to use
    > > on freebsd?
    >
    > Don't confuse "desktop environment" with a window
    > manager. Blackbox uses
    > very few resources, so on machines with few
    > resources it will be
    > faster, but it is not a desktop environment.
    >
    > The actual window managers of KDE and GNOME are very
    > small and very
    > fast. They just seem slow because you're running a
    > desktop on top of
    > them. You can use Blackbox as the window manager for
    > KDE, but it will
    > be just as "slow" as if you used the native "kwin".
    > If you've got less
    > than 64MB of memory then you may want to stick with
    > a small window
    > manager, but from my experience with more than 64MB,
    > once you have the
    > environment started you'll see no speed differences
    > between a plain
    > window manager and a full desktop.
    >
    > Efficiency depends on how you work. If you're a
    > classic UNIX user who
    > thinks that the only purpose of X is so you can have
    > multiple terminals
    > on the screen at once, then by all means stick with
    > a small window
    > manager.
    >
    > p.s. On this dual-boot Win2k/FreeBSD workstation, I
    > once did some
    > informal time comparisons. From bootup to login to
    > the final rendering
    > of my homepage in a browser, FreeBSD/KDE/Konqueror
    > was faster than
    > Win2K/Windows/IExplorer.
    >
    > David
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