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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:29:12 +0100
From:      Peter McGarvey <fbsd-x@packet.org.uk>
To:        Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Drawing graphics on terminal
Message-ID:  <20030619162912.GA39352@packet.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20030619145956.GL20204@iconoplex.co.uk>
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* Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> [2003-06-19 16:01:12 BST]:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:50:07PM +0100, Peter McGarvey wrote:
> 
> > I'm with you on this.
> 
> You'll regret it... :-)
>  

I'd likely regret not jumping on board more ;-)


> > Although "freebsd-user-friendly@freebsd.org" implies FreeBSD is
> > currently unfriendly, which IMHO is decidedly not the case.  So as we're
> > talking about making it easier to run FreeBSD on the desktop, I think
> > "freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org" would be a better idea.
> 
> OK, that seems fine. The issue is as to whether this effort will produce 
> anything with so much "we don't want to take the desktop market" sentiment 
> around, in which case it might be time to consider... dare I say it... a 
> code fork....

Oh dear, a fork would be a v. bad thing.  So perhaps any Desktop FreeBSD
projects should work from the perspective that a fork is, without
exception, not an option.



> 
> Let's see how -desktop works out. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Paul Robinson

-- 
TTFN, FNORD

Peter McGarvey
Freelance FreeBSD Hacker
(will work for bandwidth)



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