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?

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CS

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