Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:48:50 -0500 (EST) From: James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112081842400.15394-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <015f01c17fae$74ebc4d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > Pull up a shell window. > > How do you "pull up a shell window" if you have exited the GUI? Why are you bothering to exit the GUI? > > X is not necessarily a "standard", certainly not one that you are > > required to implement. > > Really? So much for arguments in favor of UNIX based on X, eh? > > It's interesting how positions shift. Not really. This in fact furthers the argument. A lot of applications are too difficult to implement in X because of the way X is designed. So you have alternative windowing interfaces. As I said before, you are never locked into anything with Unix. Frankly, there is no reason you have to use Windows on top of DOS. Remember DesqView? OS/2? DOSSHELL? Or any of a hundred other systems? > I'd expect that any UNIX system used as a server would not have a GUI, as it > is just a waste of resources and a security and stability risk. It may be a waste of resources, but it is neither a security or stability risk. > > What's running currently? I dunno, lemme pull up > > a shell window and see: > > Lots of weird stuff. Weird stuff makes me nervous. Ever look at TaskManager under 2000? Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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