From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 19:30:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBC116A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BCC43FBF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-19-159-39.jan.bellsouth.net [68.19.159.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2A2154F6; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:30:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id C72F720F2A; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:30:08 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:30:08 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Diego Calleja Garc?a Message-ID: <20030904023008.GE40413@over-yonder.net> References: <20030903224346.4bbbf208.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> <20030903232829.732e37d5.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903232829.732e37d5.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Randi Harper Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 02:30:13 -0000 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:28:29PM +0200 I heard the voice of Diego Calleja Garc?a, and lo! it spake thus: > El Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:02:04 -0400 Randi Harper escribi?: > > > > > What exactly is realistic about that? There's nothing wrong with > > reinventing the wheel if only works perfectly on one type of car. It > > doesn't sound like it was a very good wheel in the first place if > > that's the case. > > Well, it's "being realistic" in the sense "you can't rewrite a entire desktop > software in two days". Gnome and KDE have been working for _years_ and they're > very ahead of anything else you can find in the OSS world (GPL or BSD). Oh? I use ctwm. It works great. Far better than all that crap stuffed into Gnome or KDE. It does the two things a window manager is supposed to do; manage my windows, and stay the hell outta my way. And it's not GPL'd. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"