Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:00:08 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Message-ID: <20000708160008.A46112@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000708142934.0448d6e0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:32:50PM -0600 References: <54201.962945434@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706225433.0475b4d0@localhost> <20000707082704.Z35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000707003817.04760d40@localhost> <20000707211621.C35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000707203753.04804100@localhost> <20000708202346.M35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20000708125224.04edae10@localhost> <20000708145044.B45928@spawn.nectar.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000708142934.0448d6e0@localhost>
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On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:32:50PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > >Stop smoking crack. I've been running multi-headed for half a year now, > >and not ``with XiG''. > > With what? Solaris? Uh, no. FreeBSD 3.x/4.x with XFree86 3.9.x, and FreeBSD 4.x with XFree86 4.x. > I've never gotten multi-head support working with FreeBSD except under > AcceleratedX. Their laptop support also covers machines with which > XFree86 simply will not work. You just claimed multi-head ``will not work''. Why should anyone pay attention to this claim? > They're a valuable asset. Of course, if you want to see one less > native port, go ahead and discourage them.... Personally I would not pick a commercial product over an open source product, when the latter meets my needs. And sometimes in other cases I will not, i.e. I _wanted_ multi-head a year ago, but I didn't want to buy into XiG (it seemed to me that they weren't really behind the FreeBSD offering). On the other hand, though I'm a long time LaTeX user, nowadays I do a lot of stuff with the FreeBSD native Applixware (if it is less than a few pages). Besides, my point was simply that you should stop smoking crack and making wild claims with absolutely nothing to back them up. I don't expect you to stop, though-- you've been doing that for at least the past 8 years that I've known of you. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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