Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:20:14 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120150948.H23357-100000@dumpster.io.com> In-Reply-To: <20011120050329.A971@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Basically, all GUIs suck. I came to FreeBSD to get out of the 640K DOS box. I just wish I had the option of using graphics mode more often when I did want to deal with graphics. I have hacked svgalib and zgv to work from the command line. I wish I could run more applications from the command line like the paint, games, and graphics editors available for DOS. Home PCs do not need the level of security that servers need because the machines are physically secure and no one is logging in from off site. And most of the objections to command line graphics are, as I understand it, the problems of letting users grab the console. Yet, X does exactly that. So what is the problem with command-line graphics? -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 700 Hearn #101 Austin TX 78703 (512)474-1920 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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