From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 16:11:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0898437B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f4TNBjs16622; Wed, 30 May 2001 01:11:45 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010529150046.A63362@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <001301c0e7b9$9771fd90$2d0101c0@headquarters.local> <20010528235553.G12149@messiah.megadeb.org> <20010529125417.C59899@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <20010529150046.A63362@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 00:36:46 +0200 To: Chris Moline , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 3:00 PM -0600 5/29/01, Chris Moline wrote: > Yes, but its not open source and I am an open source nut. While I am > not against paying for software I do insist that it be open source. Of course, there is Apple's Darwin project, which is the open source portions of MacOS X (not including Aqua). > Sorry, I don't get much practise in expressing myself so I am not very clear. > When people say "desktop" to me that means games, a word processor, a paint > program, internet explorer, what most home users seem to use. An easier > interface to freebsd isn't any of these things. Have I made myself clearer?? Assuming they can actually deliver on their promise, Apple should be able to deliver on both points -- desktop applications, as well as an easier interface to use and administer *BSD. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message