On Thursday 05 April 2007 08:14, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like > > > > Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > > > > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) > > > > As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen > > enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't > > really have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would > > be interested in knowing from your experience why you feel that Gnome is > > superior to KDE. I guess what I am looking for deals more with the > > functionality than anything else and not speed. So far going from Windoze > > to Linux/KDE is like going from dialup to wireless! > > It really depends on what you want. KDE is better if you want to fine > tune how your system runs (But KDE is sluggish in my opinion), GNOME > is a /bit/ lighter without much customization involved. Xfce is the > best of the three in my experience, giving the user both control and > speed. > > Or, if you want to really save your CPU cycles, try a window manager. > Fluxbox/FVWM/WindowMaker are the best in my opinion, I personally use > Window Maker (As I've stated dozens of times on these mailing lists). > > You really don't have to worry about desktop integration, because if > you love Kmail and Kwallet then you could run the Kwallet daemon when > you log in and have all of the functionality of Kwallet in say, > GNOME/Fluxbox. > > # aptitude install fluxbox wmaker icewm gnome-core kde-core xfce4 xfwm4 > > And give them all a shot :)
I ran the above aptitude command line and here is last section copied from the terminal window; <begin> The following packages will be REMOVED: libfam0 The following packages will be upgraded: libnspr4-0d libnss3-0d 2 packages upgraded, 203 newly installed, 1 to remove and 52 not upgraded. Need to get 113MB of archives. After unpacking 428MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: gamin: Conflicts: fam but 2.7.0-12 is to be installed. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Keep the following packages at their current version: fam [Not Installed] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: libgnomevfs2-0 recommends fam nautilus recommends fam Score is -341 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] <end> I chose not to accept this right now. Do I need to add these two packages to the above command line so that they will be resolved or does it even matter? Thanks, Randy
