Re: Xfce vs GNOME
Tomasz Kundera <[email protected]>
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Sorry, GNOME is not the father of XFCE in any means. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Francesco Pietra <[email protected]> wrote: > With testing amd64 I installed Xfce a few months ago. I can now say that, > for scientific use of the computer, I found Xfce far better than its > father, GNOME. First, Xfce does not take possession of the computer. > Second, I can run preliminary molecular dynamics with CPU-graphical boards > from Xfce. That was not possible from GNOME, which took a lot of RAM and, > worse, gradually eated up all RAM. With GNOME I had to run MD without the > X-server, a slower doing in trial MD, to prepare the system for the > mainframe. > > I only have to check whether gchempaint (a drawing tool for small > molecules) works with Xfce. That is needed. > > regards > > francesco pietra > -- Tomasz Kundera