Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:27:07 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving chapters around in the Handbook Message-ID: <3B57A50B.9010101@cream.org> References: <20010716185834.D77647@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <20010719134759.B79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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I don't really think that FreeBSD should limit itself to considering itself to be a 'Server OS', or why would we bother with any X, sound, etc. support at all! I guess it's hard to know if the majority of new FreeBSD installations are server or desktop based, but I'd think that it's probably desktops in which case they probably want a nice cute GUI as quick as possible! I think it should be early in the handbook, but possibly not the actual installation chapter, as I think that it's better to have a system up and running with all devices detected and sorted before trying to sort X. Otherwise, users may think that their installation is broken just because X won't start. And they don't realise that getting X working is the one of the last steps, not one of the first! Just my thoughts. Andrew. Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > I continue to hear people say that FreeBSD is meant [and always has > been aimed at] the server market. Which in my eyes would not qualify > moving X11 to Chapter I a valid option. > > If you aim at the average Joe Schmoe home user, it might make sense, > although care should be taken to avoid delving into one particular > window environment too much. At least in my humble opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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