From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 17 12:38:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA18957 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:38:38 -0700 Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA18944 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:38:34 -0700 Received: from localhost.v-site.net (localhost.v-site.net [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA03709; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:38:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199507171938.MAA03709@rah.star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: rah.star-gate.com: Host localhost.v-site.net didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TCL vs... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 1995 13:49:47 CDT." <199507171849.NAA10197@bonkers.taronga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:38:21 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>> Peter da Silva said: > > The "FreeBSD killer app" syndrome smells like technology for the > > sake of technology. > > Quite the contrary. It's a challenge to that mindset. Sorry I don't consider this a challenge at all. Lets assume that for a brief moment or less that you are right. What will end users do with FreeBSD? So lets see, hack on device drivers, VM systems, add new system calls, etc.. But wait for a real life need it would be best to reboot or move over to a different machine which run Windows or some other OS with apps. Sounds kind of neat for a University environment or an OS research environment :) Now what could be a real life need asks Peter? (1) A spread sheet application (2) A comfortable WYSIWYG word processor (3) A nice GUI for a 3d graphics library (4) Image manipulation (5) A nice graphical front-end to a database (6) Integration of TV, phone, sound and an API to go with it. Okay, this was not a one or two liner :) Amancio