Thread Description?

Crooksey · 2006-12-09 20:50:30

The Desktop environment thread, has the description of Gnome and KDE, i think that this community should be more along the lines of "Running/Configuring X11, FVWM, *Box, and all the other WM/DEs that the OSS community has to offer.

Just my thoughts, arch is described as fast and lightweight, when these WM/DE's are not at all!.

May have been mentioned before, if so, sorry =/

vredfreak · 2006-12-10 00:30:44

Crooksey wrote:

The Desktop environment thread, has the description of Gnome and KDE, i think that this community should be more along the lines of "Running/Configuring X11, FVWM, *Box, and all the other WM/DEs that the OSS community has to offer.
Just my thoughts, arch is described as fast and lightweight, when these WM/DE's are not at all!.
May have been mentioned before, if so, sorry =/

The problem with that is that X11, FVWM, *Box and such are not Desktop Environments. Window Managers and Desktop Environments are two separate entities. Of the Desktop Environments available for Linux, KDE and Gnome (and possibly Xfce) are by far and away the best known.

cdhotfire · 2006-12-10 02:55:31

Crooksey wrote:

The Desktop environment thread, has the description of Gnome and KDE, i think that this community should be more along the lines of "Running/Configuring X11, FVWM, *Box, and all the other WM/DEs that the OSS community has to offer.
Just my thoughts, arch is described as fast and lightweight, when these WM/DE's are not at all!.
May have been mentioned before, if so, sorry =/

From description:
Running/Configuring X11, KDE, GNOME, and all the other WM/DEs that the OSS community has to offer.

Crooksey · 2006-12-10 09:14:25

I just found it strange how a community such as this one, labels those over others.

Lone_Wolf · 2006-12-10 10:40:06

Compare Suse with xfce and archlinux with kde as i have done with suse 9.3 and archlinux 0.7 Wombat .
arch with kde felt more lightweight than suse with xfce.

LB06 · 2006-12-10 12:16:29

I don't think the leightweight principle of Arch is intended more toward the base system.

Regarding third party stuff the principles of "freedom of choice" and "user-control" are more applicable.

iphitus · 2006-12-10 12:25:53

it's a non issue guys..... it was probably just a sentence written by whoever setup the forums as they created that forum, without even a passing thought as to the description. Those two are mentioned probably because within Linux, they are undoubtedly the most used and the first two that come to mind. It hardly speaks for the community, and I'd dare say most people dont even read it -- so long as it gets it's point across, who gives a rats?

James

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