From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 13:44:42 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B9D106564A for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:44:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@pcbsd.org) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.com [206.40.55.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7849D8FC0A for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74EB14C6 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45954-05 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.72] (75-130-56-30.static.kgpt.tn.charter.com [75.130.56.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8A7BE14C4 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5072D8B4.7040600@pcbsd.org> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:44:20 -0400 From: Kris Moore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120621 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD's very own desktop environment X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:44:42 -0000 On 10/07/2012 04:52, Alwin Doss wrote: > Hi All, > > Having a good weekend??? Let me not make it boring I will get straight to the point. > > I have read in FreeBSD documentation, while comparing with the Linux kernel we claim FreeBSD to be a complete operating system which provides not just the kernel but also other utilies surrounding the kernel making it a complete operating system. > My question is "Why doesn't FreeBSD have it's own desktop environment" something like what Ubuntu Linux is trying to achieve with their Unity Desktop environment. > In doing so we will carve a niche for ourselves in the end user space. > > What does the forum have to say about this? > > Regards, > Alwin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-desktop > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-desktop-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" It would be a cool project, but also a HUGE one to undertake. We would be all for including a BSD-Based desktop, but for the long-term I doubt it could have all the features of the various DEs, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, etc, so that would mean we have to keep offering all of the above in order to not leave anybody out :) -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software iXsystems