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Re: KDE (or gnome)
- From: Uwe Schmidtmann <U dot Schmidtmann at visicon-online dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:59:15 +0200
- Subject: Re: KDE (or gnome)
- References: <NHEELHJHHFKPMAEAFMFCEEIFCPAA.huntharo@msu.edu>
Hello!
I am sorry to (maybe) destroy your enthusiasm but from my point of view
there are some more reasons for not running either gnome or kde on cygwin:
The main thing is: they are very large packages and even on my linux box
they are that slow, that I prefer just using icewm as window manager and
only have kde and gnome installed in case some application needs the
libraries. If I start to compare cygwin running under win98 I really can
not advise you to run kde or gnome - maybe on NT kernel based machines
that is different.
Cygwin is (and here the developers have made a real good job - Thanks!)
a very good tool if you want to run applications like nedit (which is my
favourite editor) and other basic unix routines I really miss under
windows - but as any Operating system running on top of another one - it
has it`s speed limitations.
Another great usage for cygwin is to use it for running xdm sessions or
if you have to do admin work on a unix box over the network (it has ssh,
sftp and all the other nice tools which windooze does not have). So for
me (personal opinion) it is a great (and long expected) extension to
that "operating systems" from Redmond which I am forced to use some times...
By the way: I would not even use kde or gnome with linux - but that is
MY personal opinion about it. Please do not kill me for it!
So again: Thanks to all the developers!
Regards,
Uwe