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On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 21:54, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: |
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> I think it would be useful to cover these and others, and I think it's |
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> possible to do it in a nonsubjective (or barely subjective) way. Take |
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> the following for example: |
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> "If you are looking for a complete desktop solution that comes close to |
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> approximating what you would get out of the box from Windows, try GNOME |
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> or KDE. They both have fairly mature component applications, and either |
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> will work well for a full-featured desktop environment. Note that these |
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> are large application sets, and will take a long time to merge. |
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But GNOME won't take half as much time as KDE on the same machine and on |
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a recent system it's done in a few hours most. Anyway, stage 1-ers will |
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have a great deal of compiling behind them, so the DE is relatively |
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insignificant (well.. except for KDE maybe). |
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> GNOME |
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> and KDE also don't share a common toolset, so applications written for |
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> KDE will look and act differently than those written for GNOME. XFCE is |
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> a relative newcomer to the full-featured desktop world, and focuses on |
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> speed. It is more lightweight than the others, although it shares many |
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> of the most useful features (note: I don't know XFCE, I've never used it.) |
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Last time i checked XFCE it wasn't really well balanced and smooth |
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running out of the box. |
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> On the other hand, if you are looking for a more unix-y environment that |
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> will stay out of your way and give you the ultimate customizability and |
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> speed, you might consider something like WindowMaker or BlackBox.... |
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> (yada yada, here's the differences, here's their reputations, here's |
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> what they're good for, yada yada)" |
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What's a unix-y environment ? I'm a newcomer to linux here. I got a lot |
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of choice, what do i have to choose ? |
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What i mean to say here is, these are qualitative indications done by |
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one individual and already the amount of different DEs is confusing. Not |
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to mention added WMs (do i get a full desktop with blackbox too?). |
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A little descriptive story like this would be ok, but it should focus on |
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the major DEs : KDE & GNOME and maybe XFCE, not certain about the latter |
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'from scratch' quality. To my knowledge (but it lacks in this) the first |
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two at least are part of a stage3 iso, so the compilation time issue |
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doesn't even have to be mentioned (people with a stage3 iso do not need |
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to compile anything, others have compiled most of the system all the way |
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and don't expect anything else from that point on). |
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- foser |
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