Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:02:26 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <perlsta@sunyit.edu> Cc: "David E. Wexelblat" <dwex@DataFocus.com>, "'devel@XFree86.Org'" <devel@XFree86.Org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interested in working on windows port (sorry for cross post) Message-ID: <199801242302.PAA12125@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jan 1998 12:32:23 EST." <199801051338.NAA02521@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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> > Who is your target audience? Why on earth would I set up > > a windows box that is doing nothing but running X? This > > seems extraordinarily useless - if I wanted a dedicated > > X machine, I'd run Linux on it. > > > > The only reason to put X on a Windows PC is interoperability. > > no, that's not my point, being able to ALT-TAB or ctrl-esc out of it to > task switch would be my point, not a lot of people want to install a > 300+meg O/S just so they can get X. the reason i came up with the idea is With the PicoBSD distribution , the 300+meg O/S installation to just X is a thing of the past 8) Cheers, Amancio
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