Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 15:19:20 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>, Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some Observations Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.9912031512510.15936-100000@sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <15159.944213183@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > (typing in the card specs, and all that). What I was really > > driving at was that after installing X, some friendly (ok, > > perhaps windows-like) desktops could also (*optionally*) be > > installed and autoconfigured. (Gnome, KDE, Afterstep, > > Windowmaker, ....) And then the option of a xdm/kdm/etc graphical > > We do have an option to do that from the installer now. :) Thats nice. I haven't tried installing since 3.1, I just update it with cvsup. Anyway, FreeBSD and OpenBSD seem to be catching on among the "academic" types: when I first got into FreeBSD almost nobody here seemed to have heard of it. Now there are a quite a few users at my end, though neither is close to linux right now. And in many places linux still isn't close to windows, unfortunately, but it's picking up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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