Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:33:45 -0700 From: "Jason Nordwick" <nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu> To: "Gilad Rom" <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <003901bdf03a$de8772b0$283c1c26@yasmeen.citycom.com>
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From: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il> >Hi, > >In the past couple of weeks i have been working on a little >project that serves as a graphical front end to pkg_create, >For the FreeBSD X contest, To make it a little easier for >people to create themes for that contest. > >It is based on GTK+, A very nice GUI toolkit for X, >And I was thinking about a more extensive project, >Like a set of graphical tools/front ends to the various >FreeBSD - Specific tools, like CVSup or PPP. > >Since the X Contest aims to bring a Default Desktop to the >basic FreeBSD installation, as in Installing X with a Default >Configuration, not with twm as default, It would be nice >to include other easy to use, graphical applications >that will share a constant look and feel and will make >newbies alot more comfortable with FreeBSD. Sure, this idea >isnt new in any case, but still, this is something We are lacking >and i really think this could change the way people look at >FreeBSD as a desktop Operating System, or even as a better way >to introduce it, In general. > >If anyone has any comments on that, Please do reply. > Is this along the lines of Linuxconf? I think that they have the right idea in some respects that it can be run over a telnet session, using an ANSI terminal. I was actually going to install RH5.1 this week just to see what Linux has that is so great compared to FBSD that I am always hearing about. I think that there needs to be a unified interface for all system administration, notably: /etc/sysconfig (I cant remember the new name for it). ppp pkg_* and ports Just these things alone would go very far in reducing the entry cost of FBSD. >Bye, Gilad. Jay -- 4.4 > 98 http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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