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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 16:59:22 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: From Slashdot... 
Message-ID:  <79981.917830762@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 20:47:20 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901312037100.374-100000@thelab.hub.org> 

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> Just curious, but I've used CDE on Solaris, and KDE on FreeBSD, and tend
> to prefer KDE for two reasons: it does everything I want, and its free.

I don't think this is apropos.  If that were the sole criteria then
the Linux market wouldn't have moved any CDEs since they've had a
working KDE longer than we have.  Clearly, somebody out there in Linux
land wants a commercial desktop.  Just as clearly, few people (3?!) in
FreeBSD do, at least enough to pay for it.

> Forgive my ignorance, but 3DFx support...is that a kernel thing?  Seperate
> from X-Windows?

Yes.

> Just curious, but what is happening as far as modularizing(sp?) the kernel
> and its drivers is concerned?  One of the things that a friend of mine

That effort proceeds nicely, but I doubt it will have much effect on
the multimedia picture.

> into the kernel...would something like that make it *easier* to ports
> drivers over from, say, Linux?  As long as the API's are reasonably

No.  Not really.

- Jordan

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