Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 04:46:18 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD Message-ID: <00d001c162d3$334891e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <00b601c162d2$107df930$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony >Atkielski >Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 4:38 AM >To: FreeBSD Questions >Subject: Re: Re[2]: Tiny starter configuration for FreeBSD > > >> X is certainly required for Netscape and based >> on the recent bitching on this list about it I >> think that quite a lot of FreeBSD users must >> be running it. > >Netscape or X, you mean? > Netscape is an X client program so to run it you have to run both an X server and the X client program, Netscape. > >At the moment, I'm not sure that I see the value to having an X >Server at all. >What are people running under X that makes it so much more useful >than a plain >tty interface? > Netscape. > >It might a losing battle, though, as I tend to think of UNIX as a >generic term, >and I doubt that I'm alone in this. Does anyone remember when Aspirin was a >defensible registered trademark of Bayer, or Xerox a registered >trademark of the >corporation of the same name? > Actually the indications I'm seeing is that the Linux name is rapidly acquiring more marketing muscle than UNIX. I can forsee a time in the future when the UNIX licensees are going to be advertising that they can run Linux software first, in big bold print, and the name UNIX will appear buried in the spec sheets. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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