From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 14:42:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E623B37B71A for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2AC6; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:47:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3AA80AD2.DD5F799A@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:42:26 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix References: <01030800251100.00557@r55h47.res.gatech.edu> <00f901c0a794$0b2a64e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010308015238.A6647@marx.marvic.chum> <01b401c0a7a6$3927e720$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AA7DADC.72A86 <00e601c0a818$d817e520$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > I guess the BSD developers have little interest in GUI stuff anyway, > possibly considering > that stuff is for gameplayers rather than serious users (read developers) a) the underlying GUI stuff is not in the purview of BSD anyway. It's up to XFree86. It shouldn't be in the purview of the linux kernel either, which is why I think putting DRI in the kernel was a really bad move. b) GUIs have their place, and it not just for playing games. It probably comes down to nothing more that personal style. c) don't get too elitist on us. Developers aren't the only serious users. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message