Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-13 Thread Jakub Lach
Mel Flynn-2 wrote: I remember running KDE3 with firefox-1 on a P-III 900 with 256MB, FBSD 4.x and window switching ('alt-tab') wasn't a joy, being in permanent swap. Hello. The key to running KDE3 with PIII is 512MB=RAM I think. With 768MB RAM and 1400...@1300mhz PIII I'm not using

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-12 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 09 July 2009 07:07:19 Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Chris On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Chriseaglet...@hughes.net wrote: Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. Twice I've put up

FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Chris
Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. Twice I've put up X-Windows machines but we never bothered to use them for one reason or another. Now my son's school is short computers for a High School

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Chris On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Chriseaglet...@hughes.net wrote: Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. Twice I've put up X-Windows machines but we never bothered to use them for one

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Chris wrote: - Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. - Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. - Twice I've put up X-Windows machines but we never bothered to - use them for one reason or

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Chris
On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Chris wrote: - - 2. Am I too lean on the specs for the free AMD/Intel boxes we - are requesting parents cough up? Well, I don't think that you need 256 GB of ram. Probably less than 1 GB, in fact

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Brent Bloxam
Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target. Hi Chris, Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a lightweight window manager based

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Brent Bloxam bre...@beanfield.com wrote: Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target.

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brent Bloxam wrote: Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target. Hi Chris, Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:58:21 -0700, Chris eaglet...@hughes.net wrote: 1. Taking the specs into account, what is the window manager that will provide the closest match to the Apple desktop for mouse ops, browsing files/directories, and editing text files. I suppose I should add running Firefox

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Chris
I'm going to top post this because it's not replying to my post. Thanks for the numerous responses on-list and the many others that came off list. I'm going to synopsize what I've received. I'll respond to the questions asked too. I think I'm good to go though and wanted to summarize for the