Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:55:04 -0500 From: Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 11 Hour Installs on KDE? Message-ID: <20030628195504.GA20119@freshaire.wiz.com> In-Reply-To: <3EFDE90F.3010301@mac.com> References: <BB231D34.11D40%joepok@ninestar.com> <3EFDE90F.3010301@mac.com>
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:14:23PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > X is huge and bloated. CDE was a graphic user environment designed by a > committee of Unix vendors: Sun had NeWS, OpenWindows, Motif/MWM and CDE > choose the latter rather than either of the former, HP had HP/UX and that > wretched bottom center console thing [a poor clone of the CMU 'wmc' console > under Andrew], who else? AIX & 'smit'? Anyway, since then, CDE has > pursued the goal of emulating aspects of the M$ Windows GUI. AIX & smit makes X huge and bloated? Smit is an application which runs either curses or X for display purposes. It is certainly not to blame for X being bloated. Marc -- Marc Wiz marc@wiz.com Yes, that really is my last name.
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