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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:30:45PM -0800, Len Ovens wrote:

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> On Sat, February 16, 2013 10:23 pm, Chris Bannister wrote:

> > Also my comment was just pointing out that if you have synaptic

> > installed you can't honestly claim that you have a "truly minimum

> > desktop"

>

> ?? Synaptic is an app, like Ardour is an app. It is nor really a part of

> the desktop. The desktop is that pile of apps that are started at login

> and stop at logoff... They are running all the time. The update manager is

> a different story.

Some people consider the desktop to *be* the system, so I was just going

along with that premise.  You can choose to just have a window manager,

(e.g. fvwm) instead of a DE to be even more lean. I'm referring to

diskspace and unnecesary resources when I talk about a minimum desktop.
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