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Date:      Tue, 26 May 1998 17:12:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Desktop OS 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980526171041.28279A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <25458.896223408@time.cdrom.com>

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> A truly good solution has pretty much defied everyone who's tackled it
> so far or it would have been done already, and in the meantime we
> continue to field "how do I setup X?"  as our #1 tech support question
> at Walnut Creek CDROM. :-(

How did I know this was the answer?  :-)  I would say that I get "how do I
setup X" just about as often as "I can't find 'blah' in my path - what's
wrong?"

I've had people want to completely reinstall X when they change monitors.  
:-)

> For the record, we've also offered the XFree86 Project
> not-unsubstantial sums of money to work on this one, but their problem
> is much the same as ours - more money than truly skilled people
> available to spend it on.

That was going to be my next suggestion....  sigh.

Brett
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