On Friday 03 November 2006 19:54, Christopher D MAHER wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I had a guy come in to work today and talk about Linux. He said he ran > Gentoo with something called "fluxbox"... is this right? Yes, and he's got class.
> Can anyone shed some light on this for me please. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ http://www.gentoo.org/ > He said to the effect that its a light GUI that runs over the top of a command prompt. Correct. All Linux/Unix desktop systems can be launched from a command prompt. > Apparently GNOME chews ram quickly, at least as a GUI. That's new to me, but I would not be surprised if it did. > Please help! btw, The fluxbox URL is the first one returned by Google using "fluxbox" as the search term. You are a licenced Google user aren't you? -- CS
