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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Vulpes Velox wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:09:33 -0800
> Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:21 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> > > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/dadvocate.html
> > >
> > > I found the article very interesting.
> > >
> > > What do you all think?  What is being done to keep BSD from ending
> > > up where Greg says it might be going - suitable only for
> > > developers?
> >
> > What is being done? Nothing. I get the impression that no one "in
> > charge" is the slightest bit concerned about the FreeBSD user. This
> > is most notable on the desktop side, but it extends to any user.
> > There's this attitude that if you want something in FreeBSD, you
> > must do it yourself.
>
> :/  The big problem is there is needed a desktop distro... and a good
> gtk+ front end to the ports, rc.conf, and sysctl.
>

+1