From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 6:52: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FEC37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:51:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mac.com ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020315145156.IFK2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@mac.com>; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:51:56 +0000 Message-ID: <3C920A7B.70609@mac.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 06:51:39 -0800 From: paul beard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020314 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Kovacs Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Free BSD References: <000801c1cbd1$fc7d7b90$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs> <3C918EE2.9080500@mac.com> <005401c1cbec$b6b23fe0$5cdcd63f@robertkovacs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" > To: "Bob Kovacs" > Cc: > 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