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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:03:35 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: From Slashdot...
Message-ID:  <19990131190335.J16540@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <79876.917829229@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 04:33:49PM -0800
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901311508520.374-100000@thelab.hub.org> <79876.917829229@zippy.cdrom.com>

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On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 04:33:49PM -0800, a little birdie told me
that Jordan K. Hubbard remarked
> 
> Everyone talks about how nice desktop support would be but nobody DOES
> anything and, as a result, every initiative to support the desktop
> more seriously in FreeBSD has been a dead loss.  The desktop contest
> went down without so much as a single decent entry, XiG sold about 3

Well, I DID look through the rules etc for that...  but I couldn't see
how I would package as a 'theme' my beautiful clean efficient flexible
TWM setup (even now, with it's spiffy new perl backend)...

And yes, I DO pop up a lot of xterms.
 7:03PM  up 31 days, 20:07, 53 users, load averages: 0.29, 0.28, 0.33



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