From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 12:11:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B144637B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from web13406.mail.yahoo.com (web13406.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.175.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59B3443F79 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:11:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from giffunip@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030205201124.27440.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [200.24.79.11] by web13406.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:11:24 CET Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:11:24 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20030205103556.B7212@papagena.rockefeller.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --- Rahul Siddharthan 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. ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Cellulari: loghi, suonerie, picture message per il tuo telefonino http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mobile.yahoo.com/index2002.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message