From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 1 11:23:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA05134 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:23:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA05126 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 11:23:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04800; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:28:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd004756; Mon Dec 1 12:28:43 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19574; Mon, 1 Dec 1997 12:22:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199712011922.MAA19574@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) To: wghhicks@ix.netcom.com Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 19:22:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mark@vmunix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3482CF33.EDC09FC@ix.netcom.com> from "Jerry Hicks" at Dec 1, 97 09:52:35 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As you mentioned, Photon (the GUI), is pretty fantastic, but other than > a similar appearance, has very little in common with X. The design > goals are very different, intended to be embedded into the smallest of > systems. Heh. By implication, X is *supposed* to ake 10M and be impossible to embed in small systems? 8-) 8-). > They've got a free educational program, but are necessarily very > commercially oriented. Somehow, I don't believe this would happen :( So does OSF (er, The Open Group). You can download a copy of CDE if you want to, so long as you don't use it commercially. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.