Re: Version(s) working with BlizzardPPC

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Kulwant Bhogal wrote:
> > GNOME is a desktop manager, as is KDE, twm, fvwm, ICE, XFCE, Nextstep etc
> > they all sit ontop of X and do tha fancy stuff - window management,
> > borders, skins, themes, preferences etc
>
> I guess appearance is down to personal taste, but are there any differences
> to do with functionality or stability I should be aware of before I choose
> one? Is it possible to install more than one or would that necessitate a
> different Linux boot partition for each desktop manager?

You can install all of them at the same time. Which one you use can be chosen
at login time.

> Does any one of them have more application support than the other or are
> they all internally compatible (I'm thinking a Reaction and MUI type thing
> here if that analogy applies)?

You can run KDE-applications under GNOME and vice versa.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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