From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 09:56:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A324B16A4B3 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 1upmc-msximc2.isdip.upmc.edu (1upmc-msximc2.isdip.upmc.edu [128.147.18.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8CC43F75 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:56:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from personrp@ccbh.com) Received: by 1upmc-msximc2.isdip.upmc.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:56:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A7F4C@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> From: "Person, Roderick" To: 'kitsune' Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:56:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Sorry. X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:56:26 -0000 -----Original Message----- >From: kitsune [mailto:kitsune@gmx.co.uk] > >> FreeBSD 4.x: ~2M lines of code (including kernel modules) > >> MacOS X: ~6M lines of code (not including kexts) > >> >> >It takes a lot of work to make a usable desktop OS. >> >> But, isn't the majority of the additional lines dealing with the fancy >> graphics stuff, what is it called cocoa/liguid/carbon or what ever? > >Yeah, but in this case that is the job of X and the toolkits and/or WMs that >uses X. So if we combine X with FreeBSD we've got a desktop OS :) Roderick Person Programmer personrp@ccbh.com http://www.ccbh.com