On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:47:28AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all. I'm curious.. > I installed X for the first(?) time last weekend > and I installed FVWM. I had heard about Gnome, > but decided not to use it because I wanted > something fast and small. Now I'm wondering, what > are the advantages to using something like Gnome, > (which runs on top of a window manager anyways) > when I can get the same functionality from a > smaller, yet configurable, window manager? > comments? opinions? >
You can run gnome programs from fvwm so I don't really see any advantage to running all the gnome stuff which is a memory hog. It is pretty much personal preference. What you want to look at. kent -- "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan