From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 18:23:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E2014FAE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA55762; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:22:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:22:24 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: John Birrell Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904282245.IAA29340@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 29 John Birrell wrote: > > 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. I guess it depends on your definition of difficult. To me that means having to get up a 3am to prop up a system that fell over. > When I listen to what users want, I try to understand how > they go about using a system "without thinking". Let's not end up with a system that any idiot can use, because then only idiots will want to use it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message