From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 30 17:26:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19823 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:26:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19612 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (pm02-01.aei.ca [206.123.6.126]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09919 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:24:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35491633.DEDFC67E@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:24:19 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: A GUI greyscale interface by default Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was discuting with a friends who is a good hackers on the "Why Win95". The main reason I was saying was: There is no default GUI interface Well, he reply than there was Xfree86. Well, its not default and it take a lot of memory, specially with KDE :-). So I ask him on IRC "Can we do a very *basic* GUI interface, who is implemented in the code of FreeBSD, who use mouse and who is in *greyscale* or *black/white*. Like when you log, FreeBSD ask "load GUI Y/N". Well, he reply: "Unix need it" and: *** K-log has quit IRC (porting W) I have thinked to that when I look around *moused* and when I read about a 1986 (I think) NeXT product: A 21" monitor greyscale with a fuly GUI interface. I think it was sold more than 15 000 $! 10 year after that, Unix have no basic fast GUI interface... Well, maybe other Unix, I dont know cya Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message