From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 05:01:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE5A37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 05:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABAB43FBF for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 05:01:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from isy.liu.se (tuttle.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.189]) by isy.liu.se (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h37C1mEc026078; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:01:48 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:02:28 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: John Martinez From: Michael Josefsson In-Reply-To: <16586B0C-6872-11D7-B7DE-0003937C0B34@mac.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 12:01:52 -0000 > A unique blend of desktop would be to imitate OS/2. I still find myself missing it a lot, after all these years. I have never come across a smoother interface. IceWM tries to but does not succeed. /Micke > Not that KDE is bad (I use it a lot still), but a FreeBSD desktop > would need something to make it "unique" and more appealing to the > normal user. Lots of eye candy. Or else, why would somebody choose > DesktopBSD over one of the many desktop Linux distributions? > > I prefer BSD myself, and that's one of the reasons I went with a Mac > with OS X. >