On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 22:00 +0200, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > Hi, > > I work as a system administrator for the students computer lab at the > mathematics department at the Norwegian University of Science and > Technology. We have have 52 computers running FreeBSD. > > We see that each year the new students are less and less familiar with > unix, and many find it very intimidating. Alot of the students just > click the Windows-icon on the desktop, which starts an rdesktop > connection to our terminal server running Windows 2003. with gnome, vnc can used. > > To help our new students get along, we've considered installing a more > modern and user friendly desktop environment (as well as giving > introduction courses, etc). In this regard I was looking at Gnome, since > alot of the linux distributions seems to use it. However, I'm very > disappointed in the information on the website, www.gnome.org. > > Looking for a list of application that constitutes the gnome desktop, I > found nothing. Looking for screenshots, I found nothing. Looking for > info on the file manager. Nothing. What features does the window manager > have? I don't know? What does Gnome offer me for site-wide configuration > of multi user systems? Beats me! system wide configuration is still in infancy afaik. Checkout http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/ on a personal note , i find kde's kiosk framework better afaik. but i prefer gnome's polished looks and feel. > > Whereas, the Xfce website, I instantly found the "Overview" link, giving > me some basic info on the windows manager, the taskbar, file manager, > etc. It has a "Screenshots" link right there on the front page. > > > I hope some of you can offer me some insights, as I really think that > Gnome has more to offer than the website would suggest. > > > Sincerely, > Svein Halvor > > (Please include me in replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list) > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
