From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 1 15: 3:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chiba.3jane.net (chiba.3jane.net [207.170.70.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED8D115357 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:03:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from damon@chiba.3jane.net) Received: from chiba.3jane.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chiba.3jane.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA28819 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:03:41 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199911012303.RAA28819@chiba.3jane.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "easy installation"!!!!! yeah right In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Nov 1999 23:56:57 +0100." <199911012256.XAA08307@altair.mayn.de> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 17:03:41 -0600 From: "Damon M. Conway" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthias Buelow wrote: > "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 els > e. > >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 syste > m > > BeOS isn't Unix based. really? well, it's very unix like when you get to the cli. you have the korn shell, gcc, a unix-like fs structure, etc. so it may not be a unix kernel (i thought i'd read/heard somewhere that it was), but it feels like unix when you look under the gui. > 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. hmm...i wonder if apple still has what it takes. we shall see. damon -- Damon Conway Black Rock City Ranger...Riding the edge of chaos "Ana Ng and I are getting old, but we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence." -- TMBG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message