Re: [tlug] Gnome vs. KDE? BSD vs. Linux?

[Phillip Tribble <rusher@example.com>]

Phillip Tribble wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:06:43PM +0900, Wayne wrote:
> >  
> > > On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:23 +0100, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> > >    
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > It seems that I get soon my hands on a laptop which won't be able to
> > > > run my favorite mixture of BSD and Mach.
> > > > And therefore I wanted to ask some absolute elemental questions:
> > > > Can someone sum up the most important differences between Gnome and 
> > > > KDE?
> > > > And what about the (did)advantages of the BSD-derivates compared to
> > > > Linux on an old PIII-laptop?
> > > >
> > > > Niels
> > > >
> > > >       
> > > Old machine? Low on memory? I'd be looking at something lighter, like
> > > XFce as a desktop...
> > >     
> >
> > I'd agree with Wayne here.  Both Gnome and KDE are more resource
> > intensive.  Also, depending which Linux you use, you might find it quite
> > bloated compared to the BSDs. 
> > Arch Linux is pretty popular with the BSD people though, much easier to
> > get used to than say, Ubuntu or Fedora.  It also has a nice centralized
> > source of docs in its very good wiki. 
> > I say easier to get used to because it has a BSD style startup
> > file--called /etc/rc.conf.   :)  (For non-BSDers, the smiley is becuase
> > that's what the BSDs call theirs.
> > Whereas with Fedora or Ubuntu, the network interfaces are defined
> > somewhere in etc--in Fedora, for example, the hostname is defined in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network and the interface is in
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. 
> > Gentoo is possibly more BSD like, but since I think you still have to
> > compile lots of things, you'd probably prefer Arch's tendency towards
> > binary packages.  (Although I think Gentoo has lots of binaries now, but
> > I don't know if their system update still requires lots of compiling.
> > Josh or other Gentoo-ers, if you see this, could you confirm or 
> > correct me?)
> >
> >
> >   
> Arch Linux works the best =)
When I used Gentoo last, I could never get the binaries working good. I 
always had to recompile the packages and their dependencies.

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