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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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