From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 31 17:03:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23693 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:03:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23687 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id TAA21679; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:03:36 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19990131190335.J16540@futuresouth.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:03:35 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: From Slashdot... References: <79876.917829229@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <79876.917829229@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 04:33:49PM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message