From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Oct 26 7:48:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from gus33.homeip.net (hybrid-024-221-140-147.az.sprintbbd.net [24.221.140.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFE437B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kdavey@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gus33.homeip.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id HAA15849; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:30:59 -0700 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:30:59 -0700 (MST) From: Keith Davey To: James A Wilde Cc: "Zaitsau, Andrei" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, James A Wilde wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Zaitsau, Andrei > > Sent: den 26 oktober 2000 00:52 > > To: 'ALAOUI EL HASSANI ALI' > > Cc: 'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'; 'djohnson@acuson.com'; > > 'vcardona@home.com'; 'kdavey@gus33.homeip.net' > > Subject: RE: FW: My Experience With FreeBSD > > > > > > Okay.. I hate doing this again. > > But what makes the Computer manufacturers not to ship computers with > > preinstalled FreeBSD on it, it has no licenses, it's free, it's > > very robust > > and reliable OS. They don't have to waste money on commercial OS then... > > One more time, people won't buy those computers then, because FreeBSD will > > be too complicated to them. > ---SNIP--- > Within the last two days I have seen comments - in -questions, I think - > speaking denigratingly of cluttered KDE and Gnome windows. Out there in the > real world, clutered windows are the thing. In here, computer internals are > fun and the cli is the thing. Windows are for wimps. I seem to remember > that the word 'wimp' is an anacronym derived from Windows, Ixxx, Mouse and > Pull-down menus. I don't remember what 'I' stood for - Interface, perhaps. The "I" Stood for "Icons" ---SNIP--- > > Just my $0.02. > > mvh/regards > > James > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message