From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 12:10:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D04881065670 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:10:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lumiwa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985938FC0A for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn39 with SMTP id 39so1968074iwn.13 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:10:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Z5ibBwhCExkJTJUXrD8YlDRl4EM+2E7xxSQQXrJF9SQ=; b=Lucf1fqYEPZyoouNmihlDvnnRvhWbF/UrwVyXH/5PWQRNu8AXMJat/FJ8HWaT9yUmZ MINPJz8W9jJD5Iq8hCtXkRfo5yu8G7N0kHVbHd/MNIEVxgbx5/rrz9dVcsJt+ylxtZtI G83turoPK7Xh2uwrkT2H7GXzQBnsF5uGgwYv0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mykUuIbm4ehXjoGsB3uG3zo+uYaFDekq5iax98oSAhQzEeMpJmvmzDaP8uUPqJZqe+ gZV+NphlKlfNwPGj7T8vIRrc7Sob6PLyJafIMrYhvPLEgwi6IkG4/eHm4AGlZPieWMnt LWtWHZw0Gyj1ofFQXCA9wIw4xoDgPUIWBc3GA= Received: by 10.42.221.133 with SMTP id ic5mr2027528icb.212.1296130208940; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from athena.wi.rr.com (cpe-184-58-138-79.wi.res.rr.com [184.58.138.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d13sm6802123ice.4.2011.01.27.04.10.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:10:08 -0800 (PST) From: ajtiM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:09:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.5.5; i386; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201101270609.59227.lumiwa@gmail.com> Subject: future of the desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:10:09 -0000 "Thanks to Solid's new UPower, UDev and UDisks backends, the deprecated HAL is no longer needed to manage hardware on Linux. Applications do not need to be updated to make use of these new backends. The HAL backend is still available for systems that do not support UPower. " It happened with XFCE and now the same story with KDE. Is GNOME next? How looks like the future of desktop on FreeBSD or is time to install Linux here? Thanks in advance. Mitja -------- http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa