Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:43:24 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: keithl@wakko.gil.net (Keith Leonard) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...) Message-ID: <Mutt.19970120004324.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970119163151.12852A-100000@wakko.gil.net>; from Keith Leonard on Jan 19, 1997 17:07:02 -0500 References: <199701192045.NAA14114@phaeton.artisoft.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970119163151.12852A-100000@wakko.gil.net>
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As Keith Leonard wrote: > One area that MS was very insightful (and Unix is not - at least for > commercial market - average joe) is in giving the average user a usable > interface at startup. I doubt this is the main problem. (It's merely that a lot of companies once believed they could recapitalize from the low PC market shares by selling ``UNIX'' software overpriced.) Anyway: > 2meg video ram ... yet X startx up (and all the config files) in this > super lagre desktop mode. Nah. X starts up with a cross-weave background and nothing on it. Everything else is already at the mercy of your window manager. > Freebsd should have installation options for a straight forward simple 'I > got a 14" vga monitor with a keyboard and mouse' setup. No argument. Where can i grab your all-singing all-dancing 14" monitor (ah, no, the IEEE went metric last year, finally!, so make this 35 cm) config files? :-) OTOH, we do already know (by hard experience) that the `desktop market' is dead for Unix. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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