From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 5 13: 9:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9F5337B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:09:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E2643E5E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DB728C22; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:47:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 15:47:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: John-David Childs Cc: Subject: Re: [HomeFreeBSD / HomeBSD] In-Reply-To: <1028570504.32491.43.camel@lohr.digitalglobe.com> Message-ID: <20020805154120.B16379-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5 Aug 2002, John-David Childs wrote: > Subject: Re: Oh man I'm going to get flamed > Oh, come on now - your comments were interesting and not flaming :) I've moved this discussion/thread over to chat from questions... > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 17:01, Peter Leftwich wrote: > > I've been thinking a lot about an offshoot version of FreeBSD that newbian > > users could get from the kern.flp / mfsroot.flp process and its sysinstall... > I've been "thinking" about it for years, too ;-) sysinstall sucks! What about sysinstall don't you like? Is it lacking in one area or would you rather do away with it entirely? I must admit that I was very impressed and comforted by its surprising existence when I first installed! > > There would be a checkbox for [ ]HomeFreeBSD or [ ]HomeBSD or the like > > (users could pay $19.95 for a CDROM and seven days of e-mail support, too). > > Just hear me out *grin* > > It would include the latest XFree86, KDE (or whatever most resembles the > > familiar StartButton), > Gnome has one too. And you could easily change the "start button icon" > to whatever you want. After playing with KDE3 this weekend, I still > think Gnome is better (it doesn't look like a 10-year old designed the desktop ;-) I haven't tried Gnome or seen anything about it. Somehow I got KDE 2.2.2 installed and haven't figured out how to upgrade or try any other WM :( > > and OpenOffice. Out of the box. It would include viewers and players for common media -- practically built-in to KDE and its menus -- for files of type *.pdf, *.ra, *.asx, *.swf, *.doc, *.mov, *.qt, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mp3 and many other popular file types. > > I think that would be nice. Correction - I think these or something assisting the user with these - ought to be *necessary* and integrated into the WM :) I can dream... > > HomeBSD might even include a tiny, simple binary that logs into a site at > > something like www.homebsd.org/cvsup/compare.cgi to make upgrades easier... > > or uses cvsup's port and protocol to accomplish this. :) > Heck with that...to mimic something like RedHat Network Update or > MandrakeUpdate, it should find which PACKAGES (not ports) are marked for > security updates, and which packages are just plain newer, and offer to > install those. Interesting, astute comparison. > > A fairy ghost would fly of your diskette drive and install everything for you too. > > Not. > I'm game. You're game to program this occurence *grins* or to contribute to HomeBSD? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message