From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 28 13:10:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net [24.67.61.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146C637B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 13:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@home.com) Received: by h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id BD40166B00E; Mon, 28 May 2001 14:01:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 14:01:53 -0600 From: Chris Moline To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:06:04AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:06:04AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > than open source. All of the truly successful and well-accepted > desktops are commercial, and there seem to be good reasons > why this is so. What reasons?? There are lots of commercial desktops that are crap. Look at CDE. IMO, BSD/Linux don't have a cool desktop because no one has written one yet. But I think we will get there yet. Sincerly, Chris Moline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message