Re: info

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 09 April 2017 12:14:16 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/08/2017 05:21 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 April 2017 23:12:15 darkestkhan wrote:
> >> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 8:58 PM, domenico cop <domenicope@yahoo.it> wrote:
> >>> hi. I am a consumer microsoft from little past to linux. but how much
> >>> confusion that us. thousand distributions thousand names. it should
> >>> take only a name with at the most 5 or 6 versions of desktop. will it
> >>> be the monopoly microsoft that makes you divide? however my question is
> >>> this: among all the desktops (kde gnome etc) which are those that have
> >>> the toolbar in low or that however through formulations they allow to
> >>> put her/it in low? I know the lxde because it is that what time I use.
> >>> however I would want to know the situation of the other desktops
> >>> regarding the position of such bar. wishes and graces. but you are
> >>> united. and fairies of the files that contain all the dependences (like
> >>> .exe or .mac). this way that each chooses whether to install them or
> >>> rather through synaptic and connection internet or offline.
> >>
> >> KDE has [at least as configured by red hat] toolbar at bottom of
> >> screen. XFCE can be easily configured that way.
> >
> > TDE also - yoyu can have the panel wherever you want it.
>
> Add MATE to the list.
> I suggest obtaining a Live-CD for each of several Desktop Environments.
> You may that another feature of a specific DE will rise in importance.
> These may downloaded
>   { https://www.debian.org/CD/live/ }
> or purchased
>   { https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ }.
> In a quick search I did not find a Debian Live-CD for TDE.

Simply for trying the desktop, there is the Devuan one (which is what became 
of the Debian one!):
http://exegnulinux.net/

> However there is one for Ubuntu (a Debian derivative) which should serve
> for a "test drive" of the DE
>   { https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/LiveCDs }.

Which is referenced here by its own name - Exe GNU-Linux.  When I first saw it 
I wondered why a Linux distro was named after a Windows binary.  The answer 
is, it isn't.  It is named after the River Exe in Devon, England.

Thanks for that link Richard - I was about to supply it, as I should have done 
in the first place, but lo! you have done so.

Lisi
> >> One catch though: I can't understand your last sentence. Can you clarify
> >> it?
> >
> > Ditto, sorry.
> >
> > Lisi