Re: Musings on debian-user list

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:22:05PM +0100, AG wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
Mark wrote:
When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the
desktop environment.

Ron Johnson writes:
But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and
the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks widely
useful.

"No desktop environment" does not mean no graphics (nor does it mean no X).
There _is_ life outside CDE, KDE, and Gnome.
Care to elaborate on that, John? This is a serious question - I
used to use Xfce back in the days of Slackware 8.1, but that was
still a WM (or was that a DE?). Are you referring to those FWM-like
systems, or something entirely different?
Xfce is a DE. There are window managers like Openbox, Fluxbox, xmonad,
dwm, awesome and many more than do not require a desktop environment.

All DEs actually use a WM themselves - they just have many other
components. Xfce uses xfwm4, GNOME uses nautilus, and KDE uses kwin, for
example.


AG

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