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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 1997 00:43:24 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        keithl@wakko.gil.net (Keith Leonard)
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cursing the sky (was: Commerical applications ...)
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970120004324.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970119163151.12852A-100000@wakko.gil.net>; from Keith Leonard on Jan 19, 1997 17:07:02 -0500
References:  <199701192045.NAA14114@phaeton.artisoft.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970119163151.12852A-100000@wakko.gil.net>

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As Keith Leonard wrote:

> One area that MS was very insightful (and Unix is not - at least for
> commercial market - average joe) is in giving the average user a usable
> interface at startup.

I doubt this is the main problem.  (It's merely that a lot of
companies once believed they could recapitalize from the low PC market
shares by selling ``UNIX'' software overpriced.)

Anyway:

> 2meg video ram ... yet X startx up (and all the config files) in this
> super lagre desktop mode.

Nah.  X starts up with a cross-weave background and nothing on it.
Everything else is already at the mercy of your window manager.

> Freebsd should have installation options for a straight forward simple 'I
> got a 14" vga monitor with a keyboard and mouse' setup.

No argument.  Where can i grab your all-singing all-dancing 14"
monitor (ah, no, the IEEE went metric last year, finally!, so make
this 35 cm) config files? :-)

OTOH, we do already know (by hard experience) that the `desktop
market' is dead for Unix.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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