From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 1 6:41:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3971237B405 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 06:41:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA1EfAg26372 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:41:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA27334 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:41:09 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 30797 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Nov 2001 14:41:08 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:41:08 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011101154108.A30776@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Questions References: <008101c162a3$429a8a20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <004801c162bc$af5dac50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004801c162bc$af5dac50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i 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 Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 11:05:01AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ted writes: > > > What I was indicating is that the statement that > > the Windows UI is superior than the UNIX UI has no > > meaning because you can put the Windows UI on > > UNIX if you want. > > If I put the Windows UI on UNIX, I'm not running the UNIX UI anymore. And if I > want to do that, it's a lot simpler to just run Windows in the first place. The > fact that you might be able to get a Windows UI of sorts running under UNIX > doesn't negate the significant and fundamental inferiority of the UNIX UI from There are no such thing as "the UNIX UI". There exist several user interfaces which can be put on top of Unix-based systems. Worth noting is that MacOS X is actually Unix underneath the surface and actually has a lot of source in common with FreeBSD, but the graphical windowing system supplied with MacOS is quite different from that supplied with FreeBSD. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message