---- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Edginton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: How initialize KDE2
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:53:24PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 January 2001 23:46, Kyle Donaldson wrote:
> > > > Hi. Im wondering how to initialize KDE2 in BB. In KDE1 i just put
kde
> > >
>
> All,
>
> I honestly don't want to start a flame-war here so please take this
> question in that light.
>
> I've seen a couple questions here lately about putting a desk manager
> (mostly kde I believe) on top of bb. Why? One of the advantages of bb
> is it is small and quick and unencumbered by extras. Why remove this
> advantage with a somewhat bloated deskmanager like kde? What do you
> see that you gain here?
>
> Thanks,
> edge
>
> --
> Brian Edginton
> System Architect, DoBox, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah
> +1-801-446-4404 x221
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
There are some folks who like the toys, but don't have the resources. I
tried the full KDE 2 setup, and while I had the disk space - 64Mb of RAM
just wasn't cutting it, especially while trying to get real work done. I
never really got all that excited about the desktop, but there are some nice
KDE applications. Using BB to replace KWM would vastly lower the system
requirements of KDE - and allow you to pick and choose which "features" you
wanted. The KDE office suite, for one, is fairly nice - so long as you don't
need to open very complex MS Office documents. I also liked Konsole and the
Control Panel.
In the end, I switched back to BB because the setup was using too many
resources. Now that I've upgraded the memory on this box to 192Mb, though,
I'm considering trying something like this.
Seth Henry
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