From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 13 3:34:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA0D37B440; Sun, 13 May 2001 03:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 865B366C04; Sun, 13 May 2001 03:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:34:36 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Kathy Quinlan , Sue Blake , N6REJ , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I'm leaving Message-ID: <20010513033434.A54250@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <002b01c0db54$e0febaa0$5599ca3f@disappointment> <20010513171444.E26123@welearn.com.au> <00f401c0db7e$ff3ca2a0$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <20010513122623.I97034@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010513122623.I97034@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:26:23PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:26:23PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Would it be a good idea to have a "default GUI install" as one of the > install options, which sets up either KDE or GNOME, and a web browser, > and desktop icons for the HTML-ised version of the FreeBSD handbook? Jordan and others have tried many times to get people to submit good, newbie-friendly "default GUI environments", with close to zero community response. Yes, it would be a good idea, SOMEONE PLEASE DO THE WORK! :-) Kris P.S. We do have the option to install a variety of Window Managers with support environment from sysinstall thesedays, but AFAIK these are pretty bog-standard with little to no FreeBSD customization. --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6/mM6Wry0BWjoQKURAuyVAKCsEnqjE3uitGuoominBsdi+V2yNQCZAd8l MV4NRpAHQ98Vwvl/5OGyv+U= =puSG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message