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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