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Re: xwindows

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Forrester)
Thu Oct 29 19:49:54 1998

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cc: Darren Greer <drgreer@qtiworld.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:37:10 CST."
             <199810291837100844.0B2AEC1C@buddha> 
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:48:44 -0800
From: Rick Forrester <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>
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drgreer@QTIWORLD.COM said:
> Just wanted to throw my quick .02 in on KDE.  I would not even bother 
> going with KDE unless you have plenty of RAM.  It is an extreme 
> memory hog.  I agree that it is nice, and easy to configure, but just 
> be sure you have enough RAM.  I ended up dumping it and then tryign 
> Gnome, but I didn't have too much luck with it.

> Darren 

You might want to give xfce2 a looksee.  I wanted something comfortable to 
work with, nice looking, and with a lightweight footprint.  XFCE pretty
much fills the bill all the way around & is somewhat overlooked in all the
"I LOVE KDE" noise.

Best
   rickf
-- 
Rick Forrister                 <Richard.Forrister@jpl.nasa.gov>

You'll wonder why your data's lost
   When you load your system with MicroSoft...



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