Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 02:15:21 +0100 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot ftp.cdrom.com upgrade article Message-ID: <372CF8A9.73B53066@ukonline.co.uk> References: <199905020515.WAA27861@implode.root.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990502010424.7628c-100000@cygnus.rush.net> <19990502010000.D1246@holly.dyndns.org>
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Chris Costello wrote: > On Sun, May 2, 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Not knowing if you even run X, or have libs installed on ftp.cdrom.com... > > put perhaps even a screen-shot of your desktop with top, systat, iostat, > > netstat running in several different Xterms..... running on ftp.cdrom.com, > > we could start the "FreeBSD desktops page". > > David's too busy playing with the new Quake III demo on > it to bother. > Technically speaking, OSS support informed me that FreeBSD is incapable of supporting the kind of sound format used by Quake. So really there's little point to using FreeBSD as a Quake client to begin with, server yes - client no. > > Seriously - why would it run X? Doesn't that strike you as a > bad idea, at least slightly? > > > > > cool icons are one thing, but "the power to serve" shown via these > > utilities would be awesome... > > > > please please please please... :) > > > > (it would hopefully find itself somewhere on advocacy.freebsd.org)... > > > > -Alfred > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> > Choose variable names that will not be confused. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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