From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 15:03:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20781 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:03:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com ([209.133.7.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20769 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12125; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:02:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199801242302.PAA12125@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: "Alfred Perlstein" cc: "David E. Wexelblat" , "'devel@XFree86.Org'" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interested in working on windows port (sorry for cross post) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jan 1998 12:32:23 EST." <199801051338.NAA02521@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:02:26 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Who is your target audience? Why on earth would I set up > > a windows box that is doing nothing but running X? This > > seems extraordinarily useless - if I wanted a dedicated > > X machine, I'd run Linux on it. > > > > The only reason to put X on a Windows PC is interoperability. > > no, that's not my point, being able to ALT-TAB or ctrl-esc out of it to > task switch would be my point, not a lot of people want to install a > 300+meg O/S just so they can get X. the reason i came up with the idea is With the PicoBSD distribution , the 300+meg O/S installation to just X is a thing of the past 8) Cheers, Amancio