From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 6 16:07:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA06819 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 16:07:56 -0800 Received: from glueserv1.umd.edu (glueserv1.umd.edu [129.2.70.69]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA06811 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 16:07:54 -0800 Received: from digital.eng.umd.edu (digital.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.132]) by glueserv1.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) with ESMTP id TAA29996; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 19:07:14 -0500 Received: (chuckr@localhost) by digital.eng.umd.edu (8.6.9/8.6.4) id TAA11774; Fri, 6 Jan 1995 19:07:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 19:07:13 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: cg@FIMP01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guest account: Yggdrasil information In-Reply-To: <199501061750.SAA00134@uhura> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, DI. Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > This will take a little while to read and believe me, I know how much > > mail most of you get, but it's nonetheless worth slogging all the way > > through it. Yes, most of it is unabashed sales hype. Ignore that and > > concentrate on the features list. I have this CD and it's not lying > > about the degree of flexibility it provides. NetBSD is not the > > competition. This is. When and where we can match some of these > > features (and I not only think we can, I KNOW we can!), we should > > strive to do so! I certainly will be! > > Hi Everyone! > > After reading this forwarded info about the features, watching discussions > here at the University, speaking with friends I think it's time to plan > the future of FreeBSD. If we plan to support these features mentioned in that > article, we should think about how FreeBSD will present itself to the future > user. > > 2. It's a matter of fact, that all popular OS use GUIs (OS/2, Windows, > Apple, NextStep, ...). So why don't we use X right after the installation > to communicate with the user (yes, I know X needs lot of space, but > if we shrink X to a minimum it's perhaps possible?). So install a minimum > OS on the HD, copy a small X version to the disk, and start the X server. Caution on the GUI....making things work absolutely the first time is important here, and adding in the configuration for video cards is risky stuff for a lot of users. It could work nicely, if it's restricted to a very simple video mode.... ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------