Peter Humphrey posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:53:08 +0100:
> and three versions of gentoo with XFce, KDE and Gnome. XFce > seems to be a nose ahead of Gnome for me at the moment. For a moment I read that as XFce seems to be a nose ahead of /Gentoo/, and was /very/ confused! <g> Do note that you should be able to configure your favorite ?dm to select between them all, on the same Gentoo config. However, if you're just playing around and are likely to kill one or more, you are correct, keeping each to its own Gentoo install makes cleaning up real simple. I tried the various WM/DEnvs back with binaries on Mandrake, and KDE serves my needs quite well, here, so I haven't bothered with the others. Don't install what you aren't going to use and all that... I've never tried xfce, and likely will at some point, just to say I have, but the big negative everybody always raises about KDE is its bloat, now far less with the split ebuilds available in kde-3.4, and not a problem for me anyway, with a dual Opteron and a gig of memory (even if the memory isn't perfectly defect free, ATM). I'll probably try xfce when I get stable hardware again. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
