From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 14:58:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from altair.mayn.de (altair.mayn.de [194.145.150.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62DE14EF0 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkb@altair.mayn.de) Received: from altair.mayn.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by altair.mayn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08307; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:56:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mkb@altair.mayn.de) Message-Id: <199911012256.XAA08307@altair.mayn.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Damon M. Conway" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 16:13:16 CST." <199911012213.QAA28381@chiba.3jane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 23:56:57 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Damon M. Conway" wrote: >give it time. someday, someone will see that forcing unix onto the desktop >is pointless for 99% of the people out there, and come up with something else. >beos has the right idea tho. take the unix kernel, strip all the user >interfaces out of it, and write your own from scratch. now you have a system BeOS isn't Unix based. We will see however, what comes out of MacOS/X (aka "Darwin"), which is BSD based and features the Macintosh user interface (read: Finder) on top of the base system (it's a complete Unix with real userland, though). I haven't seen it yet but read some of the discussion on NetBSD mailing lists and I'm quite curious how well they managed to hide Unix below an easy-to-use layer that appeals to unknowledgable users. We'll see when Apple starts shipping with MacOS X instead of the horrible abomination that is today's MacOS. mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message