On 7/18/2011 8:05 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Joshua Isom<jri...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Sunday 17 July 2011 10:13:13 C. Bergstr??m wrote:
I hope gnome does [go Linux-only].. Maybe then more
people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better ;)
...
What about enlightenment?
For us old-timers :)
What's the advantage of any of these "desktop environments" (Gnome,
KDE, enlightenment, Xfce) over ordinary X11 with (say) FVWM2 or TWM?
Certainly there are some useful apps that, for better or worse, are
built with gtk or the KDE toolkit, but what does the full-blown
environment really contribute (other than bloat)?
Desktop options are why linux has grown so well. If gnome and KDE
didn't exist, linux wouldn't have gotten the market share it did.
Desktop environments are a foot in the door technique for server
environments. Windows clearly isn't the best server, especially older
versions, but it's popular because desktop Windows is popular. The
"server" editions of linux distributions are almost mirrors of their
desktops, gui and all.
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
