From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 26 15:49:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11469 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:49:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11035 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA17657; Tue, 26 May 1998 16:47:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:47:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Brett Taylor To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desktop OS In-Reply-To: <25309.896221313@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I'd be happy to talk about/work on some coherent plan for pushing FreeBSD > > as a desktop alternative to Windows/Linux/etc. > > OK, glad to hear it. First on your TODO list will be to work out how > to auto-detect the user's video card, mouse and monitor hardware so > that we can have a reasonable chance of even GETTING Joe User into X, Hehe - okay. In my spare time while working on my thesis and porting useless apps (like kodometer which I'm doing right now) I'll think about this. I will clearly need help. :-) Do any of the Linuces have something like this where they can autodetect this sort of stuff? Maybe we could steal, I mean borrow, from theirs. :-) Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message