Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:58:12 -0700 From: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple End-User FreeBSD Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980422205812.006a0ca4@pacificnet.net>
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At 11:40 PM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Its true but impossible. >Win95 do the job for GUI, even if its cheap and buggy. >I can reply "Buy a Mac" >It will be as Unix, but without a lot of trouble. > >BeOS seems to be the long term solution. I dont think than FreeBSD will one day >be a user-friendly. > >Malartre > Yeah, I do realize that FreeBSD being Unix it's not a total GUI machine. For Unix to be GUI, it needs X. And X is pretty much a third party software thing. Sort of like how Windows 3.1 and DOS were. You know what I mean? Anyways, DOS wasn't all that hard to figure out. But then again, it really didn't do anything. FreeBSD has pretty much everything you can want (networking, stable kernel, awesome memory management, etc) and more. Basically, everything that DOS never had. Anyways, for a long time people used DOS without a GUI. I'm pretty sure they can do it again...but in the form of FreeBSD. Know what I mean? Basically, make FreeBSD so friendly that a simple DOS user can figure it out. That's the point where I'm heading. In order to make FreeBSD like windows, X would need to be incorporated...and that would be a hella headache. With all the video cards and stuff. Personally, I'd like to run Accelerated X when I get my FreeBSD box up and running, and I don't want XFree86 pushed on to me. (I know, I know - with FreeBSD you can pick and choose how you want set up, with XFree86 or not - just trying to imaging how it would be if XFree86 was pushed in order to make it a user friendly GUI enviroment - know what I mean, Vern?) =P Comments? :) Joey Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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