From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 9 12:18:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16655 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:18:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16644 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:18:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kelly@plutotech.com) Received: from plutotech.com (tampopo.plutotech.com [206.168.67.161]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28575; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:17:37 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36474DDE.C16A0045@plutotech.com> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:17:35 -0700 From: Sean Kelly Organization: Pluto Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: Annelise Anderson , Phillip Salzman , Open Systems Networking , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X desktop contest? + Desktop Env References: <7819.910633456@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > That would have been silly, however, since we'd only received 2 valid > entries and neither of them was something I'd have even published. Hmmm. If quality wasn't one of the metrics of the contest, then it definitely should've been/should be. (Don't remember if it was.) I remember when redhat.com was just an ISDN line to some guy's house in Florida, and screenshots of his user interfaces looked, well, really damn good. Is that all it took to get redhat to take off? Is that all it will take for FreeBSD? > Seriously, it may look bad to admit it but the fact is simply > indisputable that FreeBSD's interest in the desktop contest was > marginal to non-existent and everyone had MORE than enough time to get > their entries in, even before the first suspension. Time? I wish that were true. I've been working off and on on a starting desktop for FreeBSD that includes a system administration tool for about a year now, even before you announced the contest. The contest naturally bolstered my desire to get it done, but with two consulting jobs plus fulltime work here at Pluto, it just wasn't going to happen. Even owning just *one* cat takes some time out of the day! :-) > Not so astonishing - it's quite clear by these results that the number > of people who actually CARE about this must be very small indeed. You're probably right. Well, when I get this desktop stuff done, I'll submit it anyway---contest or no. Take care. --Sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message