Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 11:39:22 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.org Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jdli@linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syscons driver Message-ID: <199512291939.LAA01052@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:46:33 %2B0100." <199512290946.KAA18466@ra.dkuug.dk>
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>>> sos@FreeBSD.org said: > In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > > > 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. > > Oh boy yes, I've had my share of fun :( > (newsflash: it seems Xinside has now provided me with a version that > works, so as I'm typing this I'm in 1280x1024x16Mil colors, not bad :) ) > > > 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 think we have to get this sorted out once anf for all. > > We cannot assume that Joe Random User has X capable HW, and much less > that he knows what it is he has. We *should* assume that Joe out on the Net has X capable HW . If we have problems with *supported* X hardware then we should addressed them and not say that we should not be emphasizing X capable apps. I am not sure what is the problem with this group with its lack of interest in deploying *apps* whether they are X based or not . It has been this way since I can remember 386bsd. My feeling is that to a large extent we depend on apps being developed else where. However, if people are going to write apps then I think that they should be X oriented. Things like sysintall for now is okay to use curses but aside from that I find it very, very difficult to justify any further development of apps to be curses based or some funky non-standard graphic GUI. Even if a funky graphic API is developed we still got the small matter of motivating individuals to contribute or attracting individuals that can contribute at the application level. *It is time to move on and/or contribute* Amancio
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