From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 31 17:34:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28136 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:34:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat0513.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.190.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28126 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA12091; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:32:33 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:32:33 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Desktop vs Server (Was: Re: From Slashdot...) In-Reply-To: <19990131190335.J16540@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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 Ouch, I thought i was bad: > uptime 9:31PM up 46 days, 11:41, 36 users, load averages: 1.03, 1.01, 1.00 Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message