From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 15:42:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D3715531 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA29340; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:45:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199904282245.IAA29340@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: from jack at "Apr 28, 1999 6:16:37 pm" To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net (jack) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:45:57 +1000 (EST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jack wrote: > We're rapidly approaching the time when upgrading an older box > with a 32meg (default) / partition will involve repartitioning, > since 32megs won't hold it all. To have to do that for > functionality is one thing, to have to do it for icons on "The > Power to Serve" OS seems an oxymoron. IMHO, "The Power to Serve" was coined because that is the only market that FreeBSD can hope to address at the moment. As a workstation, FreeBSD requires a hell of a lot of hacking. A lot of people will never be capable of doing that. > I just hope someone drops a tag before the system goes totally > GUI. :) Nobody is talking about going "totally GUI". I'd like to see a lot more people using FreeBSD. We should look at what problems people have using FreeBSD. The word "difficult" comes to mind. I choose to use vi as an editor because I can use it without thinking. When I listen to what users want, I try to understand how they go about using a system "without thinking". -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message