From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 7 23:21:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8646D37B405 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 23:21:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB87Kkx19431; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:20:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <01c101c17fb8$db2cc960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "James Howard" , "Brad Knowles" Cc: "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" , References: <006c01c17f70$8782de50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <00de01c17fa1$06539e10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <015f01c17fae$74ebc4d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 08:20:46 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad writes: > No, not really. X is desirable for certain Unix > applications, yes. But not required. If you require a GUI, why wouldn't you use X? Doesn't that negate the utility and advantage provided by X in favor of UNIX? > Because, so far, Apple has decided not to > include one. I didn't ask why an X server was not included. I asked why Apple's GUI is not itself an X server. > What difference does it make if it's called > "WindowServer" or "xinit"? Or "Eudora 5.1" > or "mutt"? Or "Opera" or "Opera"? It's not in the name. > Frankly, I don't see a whole lot here that > I find unusual. It only takes one program. On MS-DOS, all you had to do was type "win." > You don't have to use most of the unusual > stuff if you don't want to. Are you sure? If I remove all the unusual stuff, for example, will the Apple GUI still operate? > Do you find the bootloader to be scary? It all depends on what it loads. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message