From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 8 10:40:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4168614DA8 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 10:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18657; Sat, 8 May 1999 13:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.63]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04335; Sat, 8 May 1999 13:40:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199905081622.RAA13541@mescalero.asd1.rl.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 13:40:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mark Blackman Subject: RE: FreeBSD/OpenBSD included in Open Source timeline. Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I suppose, but the article reveals that the writer hasn't done much research. KDE 1.0 came out last summer, so GNOME is hardly the first GUI for Unix. In fact, one could argue that X was the first GUI for Unix, since it provides all the graphics, and the base distribution includes the Athean widgets, twm, xterm, etc. which do provide a user interface, just not the fanciest. On 08-May-99 Mark Blackman wrote: > > http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/opensource/opensource_body.html > > Leaves out NetBSD(!) and lumps OpenBSD (timewise) with FreeBSD, but > encouraging to see otherwise. > > This was a link from a GNOME story on ABCnews. > > Mark > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message --- John Baldwin -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message