Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:04:18 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syscons driver Message-ID: <7207.820199058@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 1995 12:51:58 PST." <199512282051.MAA02407@rah.star-gate.com>
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Quite the contrary. MANY people still can't get X working on their hardware (I even believe Soren is one of them, with the fancy 4MB Diamond Viper Pro Video card I gave him! :-( ) and those that do often only get there after a titanic struggle. We also have to keep apples and oranges separate. A cool set of GUI apps for X? Sure! A cool X based *installation* for FreeBSD, or anything else on the critical path requiring X? Not something we can entertain yet. I also agree that an X installer is a cool project idea to work on. I'm about to do my "next wave" of libdialog enhancements that should make it more practical for doing such things. It's kind of a pain not being able to put two dialogs on the screen up at once! We could also do a lot worse to try and sort of copy AccelleratedX's installation (Xsetup) - take a look at it and see the difference it makes! It's a pity that XFree86 itself isn't quite so modularly constructed - I'm sure that's a fairly crucial component to making the whole thing "plug and play." Ah well, we can only try to come as close as we can! Jordan > >>> "Jordan K. Hubbard" said: > > > First of, we got to have people willing to write apps 8) > > > X by itself is okay -- hard to use however it is flexible enough so > > > > X won't really be OK until it's easier to *install and configure*. :-( > > > > Gosh, is this yet another cool project idea for someone to work on !! > > I thought that every end user FreeBSD box had X up and running cause > is hard to imagine a FreeBSD box without X 8) > > > Amancio > > > >
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