From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 13 21:49:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA16506 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 May 1997 21:49:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA16499 for ; Tue, 13 May 1997 21:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem20.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.50]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07288; Tue, 13 May 1997 23:50:21 -0500 (COT) Message-ID: <33795F31.6B64@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 23:44:01 -0700 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh CC: Terry Lambert , Mikael Karpberg , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit References: <3378F899.70DA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <199705131918.MAA10641@phaeton.artisoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <3378F899.70DA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: > : Ugh !! Are you suggesting we should include xdm on the installation > : floppy? > Ooops! I forgot an smiley here. I know we want something like OS2's installation but with an added screensaver. The only thing I really hope is that no one decides to add color-ls as the default. > No. However, an X server on a CDROM and some way for it to run in low > res mode would be way cool. Many moderm machines can boot directly > off a cdrom. > This idea seriously is not bad at all, we can keep it for the next century. > None of this is to say that this is *REQUIRED*, just that if you have > this available, it would be used. However, it is a lot of work... > > Warner Pedro.