Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:40:11 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry. Message-ID: <20030917124011.55273d20.kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A7F4C@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu> References: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B4A7F4C@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu>
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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:56:18 -0400 "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > >From: kitsune [mailto:kitsune@gmx.co.uk] > > >> FreeBSD 4.x: ~2M lines of code (including kernel modules) > > >> MacOS X: ~6M lines of code (not including kexts) > > >> > >> >It takes a lot of work to make a usable desktop OS. > >> > >> But, isn't the majority of the additional lines dealing with the fancy > >> graphics stuff, what is it called cocoa/liguid/carbon or what ever? > > > >Yeah, but in this case that is the job of X and the toolkits and/or WMs > that > >uses X. > > So if we combine X with FreeBSD we've got a desktop OS :) It all ready does this great. :) If any thing starting to push FreeBSD as a desktop OS too, besides a server only OS would be good. I personally would love to do it if I had the bandwidth or a host for the project. If any one else is interested in this, I would really be interested in getting together to discuss it and seeing what can be done about it. I personally would love to work on creating a desktop version of FreeBSD which uses a bit of scripting to install some default packages or whatever...
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