Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:55:40 -0400 From: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> To: Mike Adewole <mike@voicenette.com> Cc: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Project BSDVISION Wants To Develop Native *BSD Console Desktop Message-ID: <20050821215540.GC58723@afields.ca> In-Reply-To: <00d101c5a570$7b322050$6501a8c0@newton> References: <00d101c5a570$7b322050$6501a8c0@newton>
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 06:18:13AM -0400, Mike Adewole wrote: > For many people who spend a lot of time on the *BSD console and would love > to have a desktop environment comparable to KDE/GNOME, I'm starting a > project called BSDVISION to develop such an environment. Please don't ask if > such an environment is really needed or not; the important thing is that > some people like me need it badly enough to want to develop it. And here I thought you were talking about a desktop for us vt220 fans. There is already screen or emacs on that front. What about twin for example? What exactly is meant by a "console" desktop anyway other than something similar to early Windows that runs w/o X11? Can you also make a Unicode console for *BSD please? ;) > As a matter of fact, it has been in development for some time now and I > think it's getting to the point where it makes sense to ask for community > involvement. But I'm not looking for developers because development will > continue to be done by myself with the assistance of paid contractors. What > I'm looking for is people to maintain a community infrastructure (web site, > mailing list, online forum, webcvs/svn, etc) which a community project like > this needs in order to appeal to as many people as possible. > > So if you love the BSD console and would like to see it sport a complete > desktop environment, the bsdvision project can really use your support. And > since this project developed from an attempt to do a cleanroom > implementation of libh, we'll be using the old libh mailing list until we > have another one. Come help us make *BSD a truly complete platform with the > best console desktop environment in the universe :-) -- Allan Fields
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