Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 16:47:50 -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.3.96.980526164542.11772A-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <25309.896221313@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I'd be happy to talk about/work on some coherent plan for pushing FreeBSD > > as a desktop alternative to Windows/Linux/etc. > > OK, glad to hear it. First on your TODO list will be to work out how > to auto-detect the user's video card, mouse and monitor hardware so > that we can have a reasonable chance of even GETTING Joe User into X, Hehe - okay. In my spare time while working on my thesis and porting useless apps (like kodometer which I'm doing right now) I'll think about this. I will clearly need help. :-) Do any of the Linuces have something like this where they can autodetect this sort of stuff? Maybe we could steal, I mean borrow, from theirs. :-) Brett ********************************************************* Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu http://peloton.physics.montana.edu/brett/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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