On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:36:20AM -0500, william moss wrote:
> 
> FreeBSD supports XFCE Via its package manager (pkg) or /usr/ports, so it
> must be possible to run XFCE w/o the systemd daemon(s) or shared objects.
> 
> Also, I configured server farms for decades (retired now) and a simple
> GUI was convenient. People, even highly technical one, are pictorially
> oriented; as a species we relate to images.

Especially, it appears, mathematicians.  That's why mathematical 
notation is so two-dimmensional.  Making it linear is a concession to 
typesetters, not to mathematicians.

> In that context we ran the
> CDE (common desktop environment) and its derivatives at Bell Labs (AT&T)
> using Sun SPARC and HP RISC servers.

Not familiar with that.  Is it related to Inferno?

-- hendrik
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