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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 1997 19:22:18 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        wghhicks@ix.netcom.com
Cc:        mark@vmunix.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Out of Box experience (Was: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?)
Message-ID:  <199712011922.MAA19574@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3482CF33.EDC09FC@ix.netcom.com> from "Jerry Hicks" at Dec 1, 97 09:52:35 am

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> As you mentioned, Photon (the GUI), is pretty fantastic, but other than
> a similar appearance, has very little in common with X.   The design
> goals are very different, intended to be embedded into the smallest of
> systems.

Heh.  By implication, X is *supposed* to ake 10M and be impossible
to embed in small systems?  8-) 8-).


> They've got a free educational program, but are necessarily very
> commercially oriented.  Somehow, I don't believe this would happen :(

So does OSF (er, The Open Group).  You can download a copy of CDE
if you want to, so long as you don't use it commercially.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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