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Re: Greetings and a minor rave!!



On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:24:53AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
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> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 06:45, Re: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> 
> was heard to say:
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> > I haven't 
> > used Gnome since RH 7.2 preferring XFce throughout my Slackware
> > days, so I am becoming familiar with both Gnome and Debian.
> 
> Why? Debian has XFce, there's no need for you to have to learn both a 
> new package management system and a new desktop environment at the 
> same time. I think I've got 5 or 6 different window manager systems 
> on my laptop right now. Twm, WindowLab (which is great for kiosk or 
> other restricted user use), GNOME, KDE, OLWM for nostalgia from when 
> I first learned UNIX, etc.

And gdm even lets you choose your window manager before you log in!

> 
> Yep, there it is: pool/main/x/xfce4/xfce4_4.3.99.1_all.deb



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