From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 15 23:12:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.phc.igs.net (eagle.phc.igs.net [207.210.17.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CBC814E44 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Received: from localhost (eagle@localhost) by eagle.phc.igs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA86650; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 01:08:04 GMT (envelope-from eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 01:08:04 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle To: Amancio Hasty Cc: jgrosch@MooseRiver.com, Brett Glass , chris@calldei.com, "Daniel O'Connor" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) In-Reply-To: <199904160601.XAA88836@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > No one is stoping you from writing the tools needed to make FreeBSD a > > "desktop-oriented" system. Just as no one is stoping you from writing a > > FreeBSD emulator for Linux which, if I remember right, was you last > > obsession. If you feel that there are things missing from FreeBSD you need > > to go and build them. > > Actually, a better question is why are people not writing applications? > Is it because they lack the programming skills, inefficient tools, targetted > goals, etc... > > Amancio > i've come to the conclusion that it has to do with available documentation, thus the PDP was started, however that will just cover freebsd internals, not the x protocol rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message