Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:51:39 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: Bob Kovacs <bkovacs@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Free BSD Message-ID: <3C920A7B.70609@mac.com> References: <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs> <3C918EE2.9080500@mac.com> <005401c1cbec$b6b23fe0$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs>
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I stopped using KDE since my 500 MHz laptop wasn't enough for it. I'm using blackbox now. see fink at fink.sourceforge.net. Bob Kovacs wrote: > If Free BSD looked like this than alot of average users may switch > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?file=1047-1.jpg > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?file=1047-2.jpg > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "paul beard" <paulbeard@mac.com> > To: "Bob Kovacs" <bkovacs@mindspring.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:04 AM > Subject: Re: Free BSD > > > >> >>Bob Kovacs wrote: >> >>>When will Free BSD have a default desktop as elegant as Mac OSX?. Or is >>>that just a dream. If Apple borrowed elements from Free BSD than why >>>can't the favor be returned and Apple allow Free BSD to use the Aqua >>>interface for Free BSD. >>> >>Elegant, but slow. As another poster opined, the beauty of FreeBSD >>and it's kindred is that you can run any number of highly >>configurable UIs, without losing the power of the command line. >> >>If Apple made Aqua run on FreeBSD tomorrow, I doubt it would have >>that many takers. The best compromise I have found is to install >>Fink and it's excellent XFree86 port: that and the almost 800 >>packages available through the fink project make OS X very usable. >> >> >>-- >>Paul Beard >>8040 27th Ave NE >>Seattle WA 98115 >>206 529 8400 >> >>A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an >>exam. >> >> >> > > -- Paul Beard 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 206 529 8400 Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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