Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:04:02 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: Daemon's Advocate article Message-ID: <20040302003402.GJ71140@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040301151906.34565604@vixen42.> References: <20040229222159.GA47191@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200403011109.33238.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <20040301151906.34565604@vixen42.>
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--jRdC2OsRnuV8iIl8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 1 March 2004 at 15:19:06 -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:09:33 -0800 > Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:21 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >>> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/dadvocate.html >>> >>> I found the article very interesting. >>> >>> What do you all think? What is being done to keep BSD from ending >>> up where Greg says it might be going - suitable only for >>> developers? >> >> What is being done? Nothing. I get the impression that no one "in >> charge" is the slightest bit concerned about the FreeBSD user. This >> is most notable on the desktop side, but it extends to any user. >> There's this attitude that if you want something in FreeBSD, you >> must do it yourself. > > :/ The big problem is there is needed a desktop distro... and a good > gtk+ front end to the ports, rc.conf, and sysctl. > > /me will begin work on this probally when he has time, but has been > meaning to get around to it for awhile but has had massive time > problems... You might like to look at the instant-workstation port. That was an attempt I made a couple of years ago to sort out this situation. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --jRdC2OsRnuV8iIl8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAQ9Z6IubykFB6QiMRAi00AJ0aDprlZ9yJ3Ub4OWaAoD8x/Mw4lwCeK5gj EH2nqwc6Thm9VuNg80voYHk= =XMd6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRdC2OsRnuV8iIl8--
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