From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 1:12:49 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 1AB9637B401 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 01:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC4543E5E for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 01:12:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flynn@energyhq.homeip.net) Received: from kajsa.energyhq.tk (kajsa.energyhq.tk [192.168.0.1]) by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E6745AF5B6; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:14:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:11:00 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: "sagacious" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [integrate X] Message-Id: <20020727101100.55e33cbd.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <000001c23516$42466ee0$0a01a8c0@MIKESBOX> References: <20020726222107.T22790-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> <000001c23516$42466ee0$0a01a8c0@MIKESBOX> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=.T)t+fDmr9Sm(mz" 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 --=.T)t+fDmr9Sm(mz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:35:23 -0400 "sagacious" wrote: Hi, > As far as a DESKTOP goes. Even I don't see FreeBSD being a desktop. > Because it is not. I have a windows box for my desktop. BSD is a > server, That, of course, is just your opinion :-) My feelings are quite the contrary. Every computer I own runs some sort of UNIX. I haven't used Windows since 98 came out. To be honest, I feel much more at home with my KDE and fvwm-themes desktops than with anything Microsoft I've tried. IMHO, KDE3 makes a hell of a desktop, as good if not better than other offerings. Some apps are as good or better than Windows equivalents. (Can you say Mozilla + BannerBlind? :) > and some savvy hackers do like it for a desktop, and they do fine > also. I occasionally like to startx. But I cannot live in it. When > Redhat linux came out it wasn't so bad. Then they added all this crap > in it for the pinheads. Now look at it. It's a POS. I hope FreeBSD > doesn't make it any easier. That's all we need is a corrupted userbase > like linux. Sorry, but this is total BS. Making things easier is not bad. Perhaps you're thinking that it's bad because of the Windows registry, but having plain text config files that you can modify with both or a GUI app is the way to go. For geeks and hackers it may be a lot of fun tweaking and learning about the system, but the other 95% of the computer users just want to get the job done (TM). Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! --=.T)t+fDmr9Sm(mz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9QlWanLctrNyFFPERApSlAJ9sAFgJAtbWIZYImapVnHWhQSjh0gCgosea vtn/OwA9YudtoRfXn7OrWoo= =uOyB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.T)t+fDmr9Sm(mz-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message