From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 18:15:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA9E37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:15:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5652D43E6E for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6R1F4YO017114; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:15:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:15:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Leftwich Cc: Michael Wells , FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [support groups] Message-ID: <20020727011504.GA83240@dan.emsphone.com> References: <00d301c23504$9bbe0c60$0a01a8c0@mswolf> <20020726210341.N20468-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020726210341.N20468-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 26), Peter Leftwich said: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Michael Wells wrote: > > Peter, I can surely understand your frustrations. I have has some > > real X86 issues lately and have had to spend literally hours fixing > > my own mistakes trying to upgrade my source. I am getting hooked > > on this > > Totally the essence of my post and complaint. FreeBSD is superb... > if you are comfortable in a text environment. Can anyone out there > among you imagine being shell-only from Feb 16th 2002 til mid Jul > 2002? > > Will FreeBSD's core of developers ever leap into integrating X *and* > a window manager (something similar to Windows)? I surely hope so. If you mean pulling X into the FreeBSD CVS tree and deciding on a single window manager, definitely not. Although if you call having an XFree86-Server package, and over a dozen window manager packages, selectable by sysinstall during the install process, integration, we already have it, and have for years. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message