From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 11:18:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB7116A4CE; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:18:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ares.wolfpond.org (ns1.wolfpond.org [62.212.96.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C2043D49; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:18:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ftigeot@wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (aoi.wolfpond.org [IPv6:2001:7a8:24db:1:20c:76ff:feb4:27e1]) by ares.wolfpond.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8MBIXco008602; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:18:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8MBIfOn011080; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:18:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: (from ftigeot@localhost) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i8MBIfaa011079; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:18:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ftigeot) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:18:41 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot To: Jose M Rodriguez Message-ID: <20040922111841.GA9943@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: gnome@freebsd.org cc: kde@freebsd.org cc: x11@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: thinbsd@cogidis.com Subject: Re: Plans for after FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:18:45 -0000 On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:46:35PM +0200, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > After test FreeBSD-5.3-BETA5 + current ports, I'm very glad with how it's > worked out. > > But I'm not convince about how X11, gnome and kde works together. > > I've to develop a NetWS / Kiosk for a customer and need to work on this. > > Is anyone interested on that? > > My TODO List is now by that: [...] > - Plans to specific support for NetBooting. NetWS, XTerminals, Kiosk You should be interested in this little project then: http://www.thinbsd.org/ It is a FreeBSD-based system you can netboot and use as a X-terminal. It is still quite VIA-Epia centric but runs on more hardware nowadays, contrary to what the documentation says. I just haven't had enough time to rewrite it properly... -- Francois Tigeot