Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Feb 2008 00:11 UTC, submitted by irbis
"Although I have some doubts that XFCE is 'so very much lighter' than GNOME (GNOME 2.20 doesn't take too much memory if you don't start all kind of crap), it is still lighter, and in a few years there will be less and less antiquated computers who require extra-light window managers (Fluxbox, Openbox, Blackbox, WindowMaker, IceWM). XFCE is reasonably mature, and constantly improving, so it has all the chances to become the mid-weighted Desktop Environment of choice pretty soon! What is XFCE needing to reach the Nirvana? Here's the way I see things."
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RE[6]: Comment by merkoth
by zizban on Wed 20th Feb 2008 19:10
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RE[7]: Comment by merkoth
by Doc Pain on Wed 20th Feb 2008 19:34
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What are OS/2 .exe files run with? :-)
OS/2?
OS/2?
Let's check...
% which os/2
os/2: Command not found.
No.
Maybe I failed to illustrate the relation I wanted to refer to (from the parent comment): "DOS apps open in DOSBox [...] Windows apps open via Wine and Mono apps are run with mono." Because OS/2 has .exe files too, I was just interested in what they were run with on a Linux system.
If your comment was a bit humoristic (like I intended mine to be), you could have added a ":-)" trigraph. :-)
(My ":-)" indicates that I do know that ":-)" is of course not a trigraph.)
RE[6]: Comment by merkoth
by sorpigal on Wed 20th Feb 2008 19:16
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RE[7]: Comment by merkoth
by Doc Pain on Wed 20th Feb 2008 19:48
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I'm afraid accurately detecting MS-DOS vs. Windows COFF magic is a bit complicated for me. Like I said, I did not care to learn it.
I think the mentioned file(1) utility does a good job here, so it may be sufficient to rely on it or on the respective database.
% file dos/defrag.exe
defrag.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE)
% file win/regedit.exe
regedit.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
% file os2/tedit.exe
tedit.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
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2006-10-08
When I "just click them" the appropriate thing happens and they run. DOS apps open in DOSBox (I could have used dosemu, too, but dosbox was simpler), Windows apps open via Wine and Mono apps are run with mono.
What are OS/2 .exe files run with? :-)
Or you simply look at the system's magic database. :-)