Rid of those Windows Desktops!

[Pratt, Benjamin E.]

As Michael said, I would go with 5.3-RC1 since 5.3 is expected to be
stable in a few days and it uses Xorg which is where future efforts are
going to be put forth. I used to use Fluxbox for a desktop but have
recently switched to XFCE4. It seems to take up less space and is very
easy to work with. I'd almost suggest trying a bunch of different
desktops and finding the one that suits you.

Terry mentioned Aterm, I like the flexibility, but I have gotten
cut-and-paste to work. Just copy by highlighting what you want on the
clipboard, and then paste by clicking my scroll wheel button.

Good luck,

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brian 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:07 AM
To: 'FreeBSD Questions'
Subject: Rid of those Windows Desktops!

So

I've been planning this for sometime and finally have the time to do it.

We have various machines in the home no real fruity hardware, everything
seems to supported by all current versions of FreeBSD 4.9,4.10 5.2.1 etc

I've used FreeBSD for a number of years but mostly in the work place as
Routers/Firewalls Webservers and file servers etc.

I've never really put a lot of time into turning FreeBSD into a solid
work
station which I'm sure it's more than able to be.

For the most part all the workstations will be used for the usuall,
web,email, irc and local development.

Cutting the long story short for people who use FreeBSD as a desktop
currently, what version is recommended at the moment for such a task.

Most of the boxes have fairly good specs, 1.9GHZ plenty of hdd space and
lots of RAM.

Can people recommend some nice window managers, email clients etc ?

Or point to some documentation on building a secure stable desktop
enviroment.

I am doing my own searches too, I just like to hear from current users.

Cheers

Brian

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