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. 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! 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)
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