I just this weekend put together 2 boxes for work. One was a FreeBSD
3.2-STABLE machine, and one was a RedHat 6.0 machine. Why 2 you ask?
Let's just say that the windozze support people at work have discovered
that there _might_ be something else ut there, and i wnated them to see
both Linux, _and_ FreeBSD.
But I digress. Here is what I find stange the RedHat box by default has
a very nice gnome environemnt (assuming you like GUI tools). The
FreeBSD machine had a pretty strange default gnome seup, even using
afterstep, instead of Enlightenment as the default window manager. I
was particulary suprised at this, given that the new 3.2 install
program even offers you the choice of gnom as a default destop. Now I
grant you if you _don't_ choose this you get a different window
manager. Still it seems we may be missing the boat here for
desktop/client machines. I believe that the gnome (or KDE) environment
will be an important part of wining the desktop back.
So, could we perahps build a little nicer set of defaults for gnome?
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Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154
Westvaco
Charleston SC.
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit
company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
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