From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 16:52:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D3A37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.knology.net (user-24-214-63-226.knology.net [24.214.63.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4303943E65 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:52:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 10165 invoked by uid 8002); 21 Aug 2002 23:45:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO grumpy.dyndns.org) (24.214.34.52) by smtp1.knology.net with SMTP; 21 Aug 2002 23:45:39 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Kelly To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:45:41 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <006e01c24958$18786bd0$1bae4e18@D> In-Reply-To: <006e01c24958$18786bd0$1bae4e18@D> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208211845.41579.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 21 August 2002 04:17 pm, Derrick MacPherson wrote: > > If there is any feature I'd like for FreeBSD to have is Apple's > > Aqua. > > Yeah, it's a nice interface, I find it gets more annoying after time > though. To be honest, my fave interface to any unix I have used so > far is 4Dwm from SGI. There was a few attempts at creating Aqua for > Linux, but Apple asked them to stop working on it. Short sighted I > would think, but what else is new? I too miss the simple and clean 4Dwm. But its not just the look of Aqua I desire for FreeBSD, but the whole shooting match behind it. If FreeBSD had that then all MacOS X applications should be as easy or easier to port to FreeBSD than Linux apps are today. And Apple would have a state of the art x86 platform. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message