From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 1: 0:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5AC37B401 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 01:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id f9V90Gw26265; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:00:16 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <001101c161ea$7f9b72e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: References: <1DA741CA6767A144BAA4F10012536C27A8E4@LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM> <00e401c16133$bce6c030$0a00000a@contactdish> <24104530146.20011031005611@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 10:00:31 +0100 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > KDE and GNOME have made huge progress, if you > want to work within the existing Xwindows framework. There have been functional and convenient GUIs for UNIX for some time, but since UNIX is not designed to support a pretty GUI, they've never matched Windows (or the Mac). Personally, I'd prefer that the effort expended on GUIs for UNIX be carefully limited. The operating system is not intended to be a clone or competitor of Windows, and trying to make it so will destroy the unique qualities that are responsible for its success to date. There is a fundamental difference between a server OS and a GUI-laden desktop OS, and you can't have it both ways. > But I think that OS X exceeds windows in the GUI > department - it is drop-dead gorgeous. And it's unix. And how much of this "UNIX" system is dedicated to making the GUI gorgeous? Is the GUI available and gorgeous to a hundred users at a time? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message