Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

[Chris Brennan]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com>wrote:

> Quoth Chad Perrin on Saturday, 06 November 2010:
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:02:39PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:09:34 -0700
> > > Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes, I would recommend that configuration also, because FreeBSD is
> > > > much more lightweight of the two, so you don't impose the overhead of
> > > > running Windows when all you need is FreeBSD.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure that's true, actually. FreeBSD by itself may be a lot more
> > > lightweight than Windows but once you add in Xorg and KDE I think it
> > > needs about the same, if not more, memory. People will argue that you
> > > don't have to run KDE or GNOME but as can be seen from the success of
> > > Ubuntu people like complete desktop environments.
> >
> > Well, there's your problem -- you're using Windows Lite (KDE).
> >
> > Anyway, it appears to be fairly reliably reported that KDE and
> > (especially now) GNOME still run lighter than the whole MS Windows GUI,
> > even if they're much heavier than other options.
> >
> > --
> > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>
>
> I'm using FBSD xith Xorg sans KDE or GNOME quite productively.  And with
> everything running that I normally need, I use less than 1GB out of the
> 4GB available -- less than 300MB on boot.  Windows 7 wants the a whole GB
> just to start up, or it's painfully slow.  Actually, it's painfully slow
> anyway -- and furthermore it imposes that pain on guest OSes as well.
>
> What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway?  Besides overhead.
>
>
Preference .... I use Gnome on occasion but I stick w/ {open|black|etc}box
because I'm more a minimalist then anything and I abhor desktop icons ...
even in windows, I turn them off.




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