mikshaw
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Posted: Sep. 02 2004,05:25 |
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That's three questions....
"Is flux box the gui system that comes in DSL?"
Yes.
"Also if it is, can it be compared to a miniversion of KDE?"
Not really. Fluxbox is a window manager, which means that it manages windows. It controls how and where windows are displayed, and what sort of decoration (frame) the windows have. KDE is a desktop envioronment, which means that it has a window manager, but also includes a lot of other stuff in a single package. These things, when used with a window manager, would be separate applications unrelated to the WM...a desktop environment puts all these things together in a unified application in the hopes of making your computing simpler. This includes such things as a file manager, sound daemon, centralized configuration, utilities and themes. You could think of it as being similar to the Windows desktop, which has Explorer, Internet Explorer, Control Panel, and an assortment of other tools that are built to work together as a single box of tools.
"Can you install the new version over the old one by installing the packages?"
Yes. However, if you currently have it installed via package it's most likely located in /usr/. If you then install from source without any specific configuration changes, it will be installed in /usr/local/, which will result in two installations.
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