From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 22: 6:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FA337B405 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:06:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020315060645.HOHC2951.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@mac.com>; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:06:45 +0000 Message-ID: <3C918EE2.9080500@mac.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:04:18 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020314 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Kovacs Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD References: <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob Kovacs wrote: > When will Free BSD have a default desktop as elegant as Mac OSX?. Or is > that just a dream. If Apple borrowed elements from Free BSD than why > can't the favor be returned and Apple allow Free BSD to use the Aqua > interface for Free BSD. Elegant, but slow. As another poster opined, the beauty of FreeBSD and it's kindred is that you can run any number of highly configurable UIs, without losing the power of the command line. If Apple made Aqua run on FreeBSD tomorrow, I doubt it would have that many takers. The best compromise I have found is to install Fink and it's excellent XFree86 port: that and the almost 800 packages available through the fink project make OS X very usable. -- Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 206 529 8400 A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message