Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:56:28 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: flowtable usable or not Message-ID: <1330793788.10695.60.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <4f525035.FeXsLHWGEs0tQIdS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20120221143537.Horde.deyFDZjmRSRPQ52pxBIpnLA@webmail.leidinger.net> <BA7FFA2D-DEE6-4FB7-AE26-0BC79CBFD8C0@lists.zabbadoz.net> <4F4BA707.5070608@wasikowski.net> <4F4C3FE7.3040802@FreeBSD.org> <CACqU3MWx3pMMDncvOita-OAgfe=NPKtwKE2WeB_mdcYwozY81Q@mail.gmail.com> <4F4D51CB.2010508@FreeBSD.org> <4F4D5E5D.9040302@FreeBSD.org> <4F4DD288.5060106@FreeBSD.org> <CAHM0Q_O%2BCt6yhRL=B9oxgkL8EgLxZdo7-KFO2C8HqiN1=Kx_bw@mail.gmail.com> <4F4ED889.2070608@FreeBSD.org> <4F500BB9.4040307@FreeBSD.org> <CAHM0Q_OfeB7Kb=pgjGq0uffLJdJROGoCaGz=25Jito-kweAxRQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F5088CA.1090108@FreeBSD.org> <CAHM0Q_MZM6Gn_zPzxz5tLuzPOW=kK9YxqmrLTyitvGfAPhrkbw@mail.gmail.com> <4F510FBD.50008@FreeBSD.org> <4F513B2D.6010809@FreeBSD.org> <4F5148A7.4080408@FreeBSD.org> <4F51BDDA.3020602@hm.net.br> <4f525035.FeXsLHWGEs0tQIdS%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:09 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > H <hm@hm.net.br> wrote: > > > ... Forever installing FreeBSD Desktop, either KDE or Gnome, > > was a nightmare process, or better, to make it appear on screen > > was a nightmare. > > I have never understood the point of KDE or Gnome, other than > (perhaps) as eye candy for the uninitiated. If I wanted a > Windows desktop, I would install Windows. If I wanted a Mac > desktop, I would use a Mac. I've been getting paid to develop software since 1975 -- I'm hardly what you would call "the uninitiated." I couldn't imagine working without a fully functional desktop environment. Look at a calendar, it's 2012. Maybe you long for a return to punch cards and fanfold greenbar paper, but I'm not going back there. It's exactly because I don't want a Windows or Mac desktop that I use gnome. (I used to be a Mac user, starting in the 80s, but Apple lost their way during their struggle to survive 10 years ago. Soon you won't be able to boot a Mac without an account at the iTunes store, and my last Mac will go into the e-cycle pile at that point.) -- Ian
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