Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 15:49:31 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Targeting the server: Not such a good idea? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19991008154001.043f3220@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910081655380.15548-100000@peloton.runet.edu > References: <199910081903.MAA09205@usr07.primenet.com>
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Brett, thank you for pointing out that speech. It bring up some good points. O'Reilly's remarks are also consistent with what I'm saying. In his speech, he advocates the use of the Web browser *as* a desktop environment, which is fine! (Netscape had the same idea long before Tim did, and the concept scared Microsoft silly.) It'd certainly be better than Yet Another X Window Manager. But what is that web-browser-cum-GUI-cum-desktop going to run on? (There has to be an underlying OS, after all.) Why not let it be BSD? It might be one good way for FreeBSD to invade the desktop without just mimicking what Linux and GNOME are doing. --Brett At 05:00 PM 10/8/99 -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: >Hi, > > > [snip of everything that's gone before] > >There's an interesting article at XML.com. It's a talk that Tim O'Reilly >gave in Tokyo at a Linux convention. In the article he points out that he >believes there's a new revolution in computing going on - not software, >not hardware, but a shift to web sites as the "killer app" and that all of >the focus of the Linux users on "beating MS at the desktop" is totally >misplaced when they should be focusing on what is to come. > > http://xml.com/pub/1999/10/tokyo.html > >Anyway, I think this is a nice contrast to what Brett normally talks about >(not focusing solely on the server and taking on the desktop) - whether it >has any merits I'll leave to you the reader. :-) > >Brett >***************************************************** >Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * >Dept of Chem and Physics * >Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * >Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * >Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * >***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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