Sabi ni Marvin noong Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:01:53 +0800
> What's really a good desktop you would like to recommend especially to
newbies in Linux? What's the difference, advantages & disadvantages between the
two desktops?
Mainly a matter of taste. I've also recently put in a lot of time on AfterSTEP
so I would admit a fair amount of bias toward it. What I can tell you is that
it's snappy on my 266MHz AMD K6-2 with a mere 32MB of RAM, even with 16 virtual
desktops ("workplaces" I think they call them). I hardly notice any screen
refreshes, except for Netscape which probly needs an RS/6000 to perform
reasonably anyway. Or maybe a 4-way Xeon will do it. I also switch now and then
between AS and WindowMaker. Haven't done a whole lot of customization on the
latter though, been too lazy to look for the docs ;-). The AfterSTEP docs are
accessible from an icon on the wharf, which is one reason I managed to do some
work on it. Oh, and the version numbers, even if they might be deceptive, were
also a factor in my decision -- my AS is at version 1.80, WM is < 1.0 if I
recall rightly.
Caveat: using FreeBSD, not Linux. Dunno how much of a diff that makes.
> Actually, I'm just after to learn the Apache webserver, PostgreSQL Server,
Mail Server and to make my personal web page and make programs using Java
Language.
You really need X to view your Web page, and I think you can do most of your
work from the console so a window manager might not be that important. OTOH, if
you do expect to spend a lot of time in X, you should select one based first on
your existing hardware. GNOME won't be happy on a PC with only 32MB of RAM,
while AS and WM might be -- at least, they are on mine. The others should chime
in with their own assessments of KDE or their favorite window managers.
Mabuhay.
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