Got 4.8-REL installed... Now what?

Alex de Kruijff freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Tue Sep 23 16:45:05 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:13:15PM -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote:
> 
> I installed 4.8-Release on my machine, and got the dual boot working with 
> WinXP thanks to GAG[1]
> 
> So now I have this shiny new OS sitting there, and I can login, but I 
> haven't a clue where to begin.  I don't know the diff. between KDE and 
> GNOME or how they relate to Blackbox or Afterstep or any of the others 
> window managers. (I do have an X11 config file for my computer[2]).

GNOME and KDE are Window Manager that requere a lot of resources
compared to window mangers like blackbox, afterstap and xfce. Other then
this fact it more or less a matter of tast. Its wat you like best.

> So does how do Average Newbie Desktop User figure out where to go from 
> here?

I feel its best to just try one and switch to another if you don't like
it.

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/


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