From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 21 16:51:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA00749 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:51:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA00739 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 16:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA01259; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 17:40:36 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603220040.RAA01259@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: What hardware is required for XFree To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 17:40:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: rlyon@ozemail.com.au, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603212232.JAA13774@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 22, 96 09:02:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I am considering running X windows. My objective is to run > > emacs, gcc and a motif-like manger for x application development. > > Avoid Motif. There are several reasons here; performance and cost are two. The third, of course, is that it's a standard, and if you use it and follow the user interface guidelines, people will be able to use the resulting programs without manuals. Which means that you won't be able to use the manual as a licensing key. Terrible drawback, that... ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.