From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 18:18:22 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 26B6D37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from labs.unixhideout.com (dsl-65-187-193-189.telocity.com [65.187.193.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6098543E67 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:18:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sagacious@unixhideout.com) Received: from MIKESBOX ([192.168.1.10]) by labs.unixhideout.com (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6R1IJGx003520 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:18:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sagacious@unixhideout.com) From: "sagacious" To: Subject: RE: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [support groups] Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:18:21 -0400 Message-ID: <000201c2350b$7f416620$0a01a8c0@MIKESBOX> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: <20020727011504.GA83240@dan.emsphone.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Dan Nelson Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 9:15 PM To: Peter Leftwich Cc: Michael Wells; FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [support groups] 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 I'll drink to that.. cheers~ sagacious (Mike) Network administrator The unixhideout network http://www.unixhideout.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message