From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 15 20:17:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C8014DEB for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:17:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip107.houston2.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.201.107]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC2B3709D; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:15:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA08569; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:15:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:15:27 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Brett Glass Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz Subject: Re: Jordan the Confused (Was: Jordan The Evil!) Message-ID: <19990415221527.I3986@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <4.2.0.32.19990415110155.045695d0@localhost> <4.2.0.32.19990415195943.045f9100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.32.19990415195943.045f9100@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 08:07:03PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 15, 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > >As for the desktop, quite patently FreeBSD's approach is *not* desktop > >orriented, otherwise we would have more tools a la Red Hat for configuring our > >systems, > > There's no reason why such tools could not be developed. They should be. The reason for the lack of these tools was explained in the sentence you quoted. "quote patently, FreeBSD's approach is *not* desktop oriented," -- this seems to explain it well. > > --Brett Glass > > > "You're not just e-mailing her, you're e-mailing anyone she's ever > e-mailed." > > -- Dayton Daily News Cartoonist Mike Peters on the "Melissa virus" -- Chris Costello One picture is worth 128K words. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message