From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 15 14:24:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5B537B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 14:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8033F43E72 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 14:24:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@genius.tao.org.uk) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id B6CAF46FD; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:24:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:24:08 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Matthew Jacob Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.0 as a desktop 'failure' report Message-ID: <20020915212408.GC7155@genius.tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Matthew Jacob , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200209141903.g8EJ3Pua052916@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 12:32:24PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: >=20 > Now *I* run it on my desk top because the VM system doesn't freeze the > mouse as I switch between windows the way Linux does. But I have to say > that Windows2000 with Putty is just about as useful as a desktop *plus* > you don't have to bork around with Vmware (which, btw, has gone on to > version 3 which isn't supported under FreeBSD) I'm trying to foster work to port this to FreeBSD. Someone's looking at it right now, so I'm hopeful that we'll have a working one soon. It sucks to have a licence that can't be used (yes I bought the upgrade!). Joe --=20 "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein, 1921 --LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAj2E+ncACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYKzgCeJsMvbDK+PSomnD7uormlARGK 7wUAoMUkJi0nr5Ld2hnqyYwWRfdwKePU =0HQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LwW0XdcUbUexiWVK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message