From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 2 18:13:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from satsuma.mail.easynet.net (satsuma.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF6A2156A4 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 18:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c.raven@ukonline.co.uk) Received: (qmail 13439 invoked from network); 3 May 1999 01:13:29 -0000 Received: from tnt-6-74.easynet.co.uk (HELO ukonline.co.uk) (195.40.201.74) by satsuma.mail.easynet.net with SMTP; 3 May 1999 01:13:29 -0000 Message-ID: <372CF8A9.73B53066@ukonline.co.uk> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 02:15:21 +0100 From: Christopher Raven Organization: CIAN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Alfred Perlstein , David Greenman , Greg Lehey , Kris Kennaway , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgrade article References: <199905020515.WAA27861@implode.root.com> <19990502010000.D1246@holly.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Not knowing if you even run X, or have libs installed on ftp.cdrom.com... > > put perhaps even a screen-shot of your desktop with top, systat, iostat, > > netstat running in several different Xterms..... running on ftp.cdrom.com, > > we could start the "FreeBSD desktops page". > > David's too busy playing with the new Quake III demo on > it to bother. > Technically speaking, OSS support informed me that FreeBSD is incapable of supporting the kind of sound format used by Quake. So really there's little point to using FreeBSD as a Quake client to begin with, server yes - client no. > > Seriously - why would it run X? Doesn't that strike you as a > bad idea, at least slightly? > > > > > cool icons are one thing, but "the power to serve" shown via these > > utilities would be awesome... > > > > please please please please... :) > > > > (it would hopefully find itself somewhere on advocacy.freebsd.org)... > > > > -Alfred > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Chris Costello > Choose variable names that will not be confused. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message