From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 21:32:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id VAA16123 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 21:32:12 -0800 Received: from crab.xinside.com (crab.xinside.com [199.120.247.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA16111; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 21:32:07 -0800 Received: (jdc@localhost) by crab.xinside.com (8.6.8/8.6.5) id WAA04626; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 22:31:41 -0700 From: Jeremy Chatfield Message-Id: <199502020531.WAA04626@crab.xinside.com> Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 22:31:40 +0000 (MST) Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu, root@io.cts.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199502020300.DAA01082@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Feb 2, 95 03:00:49 am Organization: X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA. Phone: +1(303)470-5302 Reply-To: jdc@crab.xinside.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1903 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards writes: > > In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > > Would an all singing, all dancing administration tool, like SVR4 sysadm > > > or AIX's be a sufficient answer to this problem? > > > > It would certainly be a heck of a start. I've made a very rudimentary > > beginning on this with `dmenu', but something a lot more polished I > > certainly would not kick out of bed for eating crackers. > > > > > What it if was only available as a GUI tool? > > > > There would be some fuss, but since Jeremy has kindly offered Xaccel > > at VGA resolutions, we'd have most folks covered. > > Offered it to who? The offer was made to FreeBSD.Org in early or mid December in the midst of discussion about whether to use a GUI based post-install/configuration phase. We're interested in promoting the use of the X Window System, we maintain 640x480x16bpp for pretty much every chipset you can think of (if you invoke the Server and we can't identify what you have, but we can find enough to run VGA, we'll do so). It solved an argument about being unable to guarantee 640x480x4bpp operation on all VGA hardware. We're quite happy to provide a crippled (640x480x4bpp) Server for almost any environment for which we currently have a port, especially if makes the OS easier to install, configure and use. Our market grows as the size of the whole UNIX market grows. It is a little extra work for us (we have to make it so that pulling down the patches from our Anon-FTP Server doesn't permit someone to build a useful working Server for which they'd have otherwise paid us). Cheers, JeremyC. -- Jeremy Chatfield, +1(303)470-5302, FAX:+1(303)470-5513, email:jdc@xinside.com X Inside Inc, P O Box 10774, Golden, CO 80401-0610, USA. Commercial X Server - for more information please try these services http://www.xinside.com info@xinside.com ftp.xinside.com