DragonFly users List (threaded) for 2010-11
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Re: DragonFly-2.8 RELEASED!
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Matthew Dillon
<dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> : congrats! I was just introduced to the HAMMER fs not long ago
> :and I like it. I'm wondering, if the GUI will be part of every new
> :DragonFly release or only a certain ones?
> :
> : Regards
> : Edward
>
> I think in general pkgsrc is a lot easier to work with now than
> it was even just two releases ago, so hopefully building the gui
> image will be less onorous as we move forward.
>
> I'd like to get a real window manager into it for the next release
> but we'll see. Adding something like KDE will probably add another
>
I use many window managers on different OS installations.
My wife coming from Windows background found xfce to be the easy.
I guess xfce would be a fair choice to give an easy desktop without
much RAM being consumed.
( though my personal preference is fvwm ) :-)
If the desktop is slow then the new user will think that the OS is slow :-)
thanks
--Siju
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