[NBLUG/talk] Window Manager/ Desktop Environment...

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Tue Dec 18 13:38:03 PST 2007


Robert P. Thille wrote:
> Kyle Rankin wrote:
>> If you like NeXTStep then try windowmaker. It's lightweight and very
>> similar.
> 
> Thanks Kyle, I'll take a look at windowmaker.
> 
> I did expect some more discussion though.


There's some other good lightweight ones you can check out too, such as: 
  XFCE, fluxbox, and IceWM.


> I thought window managers 
> (KDE vs Gnome, etc) were the new religious wars to take over for vi vs. 
> emacs :-)
> 
> Robert

Well, maybe in 1999 they were!  :-)

I guess people have just sorta moved on to more important religious wars 
now:  http://www.jroller.com/obie/entry/top_10_reasons_why_java.  :-)

DR



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