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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:56:18 -0400
"Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> wrote:

> -----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 :)

It all ready does this great.  :)   If any thing starting to push FreeBSD as a
desktop OS too, besides a server only OS would be good. I personally would love
to do it if I had the bandwidth or a host for the project.

If any one else is interested in this, I would really be interested in getting
together to discuss it and seeing what can be done about it.

I personally would love to work on creating a desktop version of FreeBSD which
uses a bit of scripting to install some default packages or whatever...