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Old 7th May 2008
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Originally Posted by lvlamb View Post
Using said window manager "on" FreeBSD or OpenSolaris or Linux does not makes sense as said windows manager takes over some functions which should be left at OS or networking level.
Fair enough, but you still use the OS for a whole host of tasks, including updating. And with Gnome, you don't have to use things like automounting -- by default these sorts of features are turned off. You have to choose to turn them on by permissions, starting daemons and things like that.
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