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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:50:07PM +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote:

> I'm with you on this.

You'll regret it... :-)
 
> Although "freebsd-user-friendly@freebsd.org" implies FreeBSD is
> currently unfriendly, which IMHO is decidedly not the case.  So as we're
> talking about making it easier to run FreeBSD on the desktop, I think
> "freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org" would be a better idea.

OK, that seems fine. The issue is as to whether this effort will produce 
anything with so much "we don't want to take the desktop market" sentiment 
around, in which case it might be time to consider... dare I say it... a 
code fork....

Let's see how -desktop works out. :-)

-- 
Paul Robinson