From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 14 5:41:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from tiku.hut.fi (tiku.hut.fi [130.233.228.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7280437B43C; Mon, 14 May 2001 05:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sparvu@alpha.hut.fi) Received: from alpha.hut.fi (sparvu@alpha.hut.fi [130.233.224.50]) by tiku.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28603; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:39:15 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:39:15 +0300 (EET DST) From: Stefan Parvu To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Stefan Parvu , Doug Young , Rahul Siddharthan , Kathy Quinlan , Sue Blake , N6REJ , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm leaving In-Reply-To: <20010513134145.C62345@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok guys Anyway having a WM with all the godies for FreeBSD would be nice. stefan On Sun, 13 May 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:41:45 -0700 > From: Kris Kennaway > To: Stefan Parvu > Cc: Doug Young , Kris Kennaway , Rahul Siddharthan , Kathy Quinlan , Sue Blake , N6REJ , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: I'm leaving > > On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:02:58PM +0300, Stefan Parvu wrote: > > > > "default GUI install" is a subject to discuss. In my oppinion is not a > > good idea because: > > > > 1. The core OS should be simple and simple to install. No GUI for that. > > Make a comparations between Solaris, OpenBSD, Microsoft, Linux RedHat, > > Suse. Time it and think again. As well look to the complexity of GUI > > Install stuff. > > > > 2. The text mode is really cool. Is fast and it's simple. No extra effort. > > > > 3. No problems with video cards or VESA generic mode. Keep it simple. For > > what do you need install GUI ??? Comfort ? Help for new users ??? > > > > At least these 3 points makes a good point to keep the sysinstall stuff. > > If new users come and want to learn the stuff is simple: Grab a doc and > > read it. Why we should have a "right click" formula as Microsoft or other > > commercial UNIXes does ??? Sysinstall anyway is simple to use more than > > any GUI ... > > You've misunderstood. We're not talking about a replacement for > sysinstall (though that is -- slowly -- being developed with the full > understanding of what you said above in mind); we're talking about the > capability for sysinstall to install a Window Manager + desktop > environment for the user to provide a more friendly face than a csh > prompt. Actually, we're not even talking about that; it's already > existed for some time -- we were talking about someone actually making > a nice, FreeBSD-customized desktop environment for one of the popular > WMs (I don't personally care which). > > Kris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message