Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:21:53 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> Cc: Phillip Salzman <advocacy@saten.dyn.ml.org>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desktop OS Message-ID: <25309.896221313@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 12:38:49 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526122407.11096E-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
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> I'd be happy to talk about/work on some coherent plan for pushing FreeBSD > as a desktop alternative to Windows/Linux/etc. OK, glad to hear it. First on your TODO list will be to work out how to auto-detect the user's video card, mouse and monitor hardware so that we can have a reasonable chance of even GETTING Joe User into X, much less up with a terrific desktop. Until installing and configuring X for maximum performance (e.g. at something better than 640x480x16) is a lot easier than it is now, this will always be an area where we're weak. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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