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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:15:27 -0500
From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!)
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On Thu, Apr 15, 1999, Brett Glass wrote:
> >As for the desktop, quite patently FreeBSD's approach is *not* desktop
> >orriented, otherwise we would have more tools a la Red Hat for configuring our
> >systems,
> 
> There's no reason why such tools could not be developed. They should be.

   The reason for the lack of these tools was explained in the
sentence you quoted.  "quote patently, FreeBSD's approach is *not*
desktop oriented," -- this seems to explain it well.

> 
> --Brett Glass
> 
> 
> "You're not just e-mailing her, you're e-mailing anyone she's ever
> e-mailed."
> 
> -- Dayton Daily News Cartoonist Mike Peters on the "Melissa virus"

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>

One picture is worth 128K words.


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