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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!news.cs.kiev.ua!monoli!csoft!mammoth!rus From: rus@monolit.kiev.ua (Ruslan Belkin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Date: 16 Aug 1995 14:35:01 GMT Organization: CS/MONOLIT Network centre Lines: 38 Message-ID: <40svml$b69@bee.cs.kiev.ua> References: <3uktse$d9c@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <3us0rg$7ph@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <id.GFWL1.CG3@nmti.com> <3v42d4$qmb@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <id.KGYL1._I4@nmti.com> <3vgq18$6vk@cronkite.seas.gwu.edu> <3vi3cp$j4u@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <40q6a8$pps@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: mammoth.cs.kiev.ua X-NNTP-Posting-Host: bee.cs.kiev.ua X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dave Duling (duling@niehs.nih.gov) wrote: > In article <3vi3cp$j4u@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, > Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: > >dobrien@seas.gwu.edu (David O'Brien) wrote: > >>Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote: > > > >...snip more scathing NT remarks. > >.......... > >bad points. A good GUI on top of a good > >OS (aka FreeBSD) would make it more popular > >with users. If this is desired then a quick > >easy GUI development toolset would ease the > >porting of the many existing obtuse scripts/files > >and design of new ones by allowing Mr/Mrs/Ms Average > >user to develop GUIs without having to spend the > >next few years learning Xt/Xlib etc. The idea > >is that many hands will make light work and > >the many hands will be there IF there is > >an easy to use GUI based GUI builder. > > > Interesting thread. It seems that BEFORE a group can decide upon a GUI > toolset, it must first decide upon a GUI ! FreeBSD (and Linux for I think, that providing some pre-configured, plug-and-play XFree distribution (instead of fresh one) even with fvwm, xfm and with BSD-daemon logo will simple and good start for bringing FreeBSD to Windoze-nized user. > - Dave Duling@niehs.nih.gov > ** Clearly not speaking for the taxpayers ... ** -- Ruslan Belkin at CS/MONOLIT Network Centre (rus@UA.net)