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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:04:18 -0800
From:      paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
To:        Bob Kovacs <bkovacs@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free BSD
Message-ID:  <3C918EE2.9080500@mac.com>
References:  <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs>

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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.


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