Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:11:24 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) Message-ID: <20030205201124.27440.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030205103556.B7212@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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--- Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> ha scritto: >
...
>
> I don't think this is what's holding back FreeBSD
> (or Linux) at all.
> It's an old logical fallacy: Windows has graphics
> support in the
> kernel; Windows is successful; so if we have
> graphics support in the
> kernel, we'll be successful.
>
We are not falling in that nonsense :). You might want
to look at Jammes Simmon's comment (on the Linux
kernel traffic) about how Linux has failed in the
embedded and desktop markets.
I think we need something light that can provide
graphics without all the complications while
configuring and setting X. Eventually we would like to
have a graphical installation too and Tektronix
(yucks) emulation ...why not.
cheers,
Pedro.
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