From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 30 17:19:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19752 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@spain-12.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA19730 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA05261 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:20:29 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 17:20:28 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: "hackers@freebsd.org" Subject: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?) In-Reply-To: <199711302329.PAA00257@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Sounds to me like a FreeBSD out of the box experience program . Who > knows even an mpeg movie and you can use Randall's fxtv to do just that 8) Speaking of an out of box experience, KDE works quite nicely. It's kinda a CDE/Motif meets Win95 type thing, with a bunch of little applets for stuff from user managment to basic text editing to games. I think this would make a nice "X" enviroment for a graphical sysinstall. All of which might make using FreeBSD a less daunting desktop (or even server) OS. www.kde.org "Every finger in the room is pointing at me" Tori Amos - alex