From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 20:18: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABEC37B5EA; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:18:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13EkN3-0005gM-00; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:18:05 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA52575; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:18:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:18:04 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: wonko@entropy.tmok.com Cc: Mike Smith , mph@astro.caltech.edu, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000719041804.A52522@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200007190109.SAA20514@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200007190240.WAA97974@entropy.tmok.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200007190240.WAA97974@entropy.tmok.com>; from wonko@users.tmok.com on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 10:40:50PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > sure, lusers really annoy us, but doing what you ask to make your job "easier" > is sorta what our job is all about, so with a few exceptions, we will happily > make the change for you. Speaking as a newcomer to BSD, it's hard to say we are forward looking and have decent multimedia ability when we can't easily get 'ls' to show color. Maybe multimedia, color, sound, etc aren't important to 'old school' computer people, but let's face it: computing isn't what it used to be. Old school OS's never imagined video playback, point-and-click, speech synthesis, 3D game cards, and real-time online gaming. But they are here. They also never thought they would see spreadsheets, wysiwig word processors, desktop publishing, and other 'productive' endeavors become widespread and accessible to the average joe. It's time to sell out. Colorls isn't THAT big of a deal if it makes people happy. Adding it will make more people happy than leaving it out will. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message