From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 2 11:01:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18466 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18459 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09497; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:01:33 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd009413; Tue Feb 2 12:01:16 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA07100; Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:01:15 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902021901.MAA07100@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Regarding Promoting KDE - Wait, why not GNUstep? To: gummibear@mediaone.net (Joey Garcia) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 19:01:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36B69584.F80FA433@mediaone.net> from "Joey Garcia" at Feb 1, 99 10:04:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Okay, so KDE might be easy to use for newbies coming from Window > 95/98/NT because it sort of looks alike, but why add an enviroment that > slows down the system? Because Kirk McKusick has promised that the number of MIPS that are delivered to the keyboard has remained constant since 1974, and we intend to keep his promise as processors get faster. It's now a holy obligation. 8-). Seriously, graphical doesn't imply Microsoft Windows. If you have alternatives, and good arguments for those alternatives, then, why, it's time for a contest! > KDE is probably alot farther ahead than the GNUstep team, but with > more help maybe it will move forward faster. I have to say that those KDE guys are maniacs. You really need to go look at the current status of "KOffice". I'm not positive, but these might be the same nuts who brought us the ASCII art VGA emulator for Televideo/VT100 terminals... truly the type of hackers we had in the US back in the early to mid 80's... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message