From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 26 15:21:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05525 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:21:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05448 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25313; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Brett Taylor cc: Phillip Salzman , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desktop OS In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 May 1998 12:38:49 MDT." Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 15:21:53 -0700 Message-ID: <25309.896221313@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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