Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:41:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks) Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, wghicks@bellsouth.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lets Endorse KDE Was: some slashdot thread Message-ID: <199902021841.LAA06274@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990202001357R.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> from "W Gerald Hicks" at Feb 2, 99 00:13:57 am
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> The good new is, with a bit of care and handholding, even a very new > user can try each of these and decide for themselves. That's the > magic of the ports subsystem. Actually, the magic is ">*PAF!*< You have a command line!". It is very easily defensible that people who don't like GUI based login, etc. (whatever desktop, WM, etc. is picked) can disable the thing, or even turn off the (default on) install of the thing. The converse is not true. At a bare minimum, there should be a "FreeBSD Desktop Express Install" as one of the installation options. Dare I say that it should include a DHCP client that defaults it to a random address on the 10 net if it doesn't get a response, and a GUI TCP settings configurator for when neither of those work... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehelp
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