Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > On 12/3/2013 8:22 PM, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: >> I'm not far from choosing a Desktop Environment, which BLFS gives you >> choices of KDE, XFCE, LXDE to install. >> >> I use Gnome at work, an old version that comes with Redhat 5, and I >> understand that new versions get mixed reviews in online forums. I have >> no opinion, having no experience except with what comes with my Fedora >> 19 host system. >> >> Why does BLFS not do Gnome? I see that Gnome depends on systemd which >> BLFS does not support. Can anyone give me a few clues about the issues? >> >> I've used KDE before, where I used to work, and I was quite happy with it. >> >> Any comments on the relative merits of the three that BLFS recommends? >> Beyond the brief introductions in the BLFS book? > > Well, based on the many kind suggestions I received, I installed XFCE > and managed to get it running. It looks very nice. > > Man, what a lot of dependencies, though.
The nice thing about BLFS is that it is easy enough to build something like fluxbox with few dependencies and try out other alternatives. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
