From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 12:17:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-46.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927EC37B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:17:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3D14E66F34; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:17:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:17:33 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Dan H." Cc: Kris Kennaway , Dave Tkach , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <20010327121733.A18063@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010327113441.A17199@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from danh@nofx.eagle.ca on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:55:32PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:55:32PM -0500, Dan H. wrote: > > Well, I think you under-emphasized the use and utility of X a > > bit..most people use FreeBSD with the graphical interface, which can > > be installed from the FreeBSD installer. >=20 > Kris, if you look closely, I said "if you are used to Windows, it's more > like DOS, than anything else." >=20 > In other words, if ALL he knows is Windows and a bit of DOS, than FreeBSD > is a lot more comparable to DOS, than Windows. No? Comparing something to DOS isn't going to want most people want to use it, even if they're both "typing stuff at a command prompt". Superficially it may be true, but it's hardly good advocacy for FreeBSD :-) > "most people use FreeBSD with the graphical interface", I must not be like > most people, than. Well, I'm also typing this in the console because I couldn't be bothered loading X yet, but I think what I said is true (for desktop users). Kris --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6wPVcWry0BWjoQKURAs/KAKCkH949C648N9g7JyAHZvTySAXDSgCfctmb gMW3UheanVo3VO8lrtXRFjE= =HtZt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --a8Wt8u1KmwUX3Y2C-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message