Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:07:58 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 11 Hour Installs on KDE? Message-ID: <3EFDF59E.9050308@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030628195504.GA20119@freshaire.wiz.com> References: <BB231D34.11D40%joepok@ninestar.com> <3EFDE90F.3010301@mac.com> <20030628195504.GA20119@freshaire.wiz.com>
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Marc Wiz wrote: > 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. No: MIT is to blame for X being huge and bloated. I was wondering what other blighted aspects of various vendor OS'es that I could point to that reminded me of the first impression I got of CDE, and 'smit' was what came to mind when I considered AIX. To put it mildly, I'd rather have seperate dedicated tools than a jumbo swiss-army knife. That way, I'd have lots of tools which actually do their particular job well, rather than single tool which doesn't do anything at all particularly well. -- -Chuck
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