From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 28 14:45:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9013A37B422 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:45:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA01790; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:45:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 15:38:14 -0600 To: Chris Moline , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The desktop apathy In-Reply-To: <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 At 02:01 PM 5/28/2001, Chris Moline wrote: >What reasons?? There are lots of commercial desktops that are crap. A commercial model is no guarantee of quality, but it may well be a prerequisite. One of the most underrated desktops -- and one I would dearly love to see ported to the BSDs -- is GeoWorks. Tiny, super-efficient, object-oriented, and INCREDIBLY fast. It was shoehorned into MS-DOS with great effort.... The nasty, snaky code that retrofitted it into this environment could be removed, leaving a REALLY neat GUI. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message