On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:46:03PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >I mean seriously, has this helped anything at all? > > no. all i want is to stop all stupid topics about: > > - KDE/Gnome/other crap (or great things for somebody) > > BECAUSE IT'S NOT PART OF FREEBSD. FreeBSD has nothing to this, except > KDE/Gnome/whatever can be run on it
Isn't discussion of getting KDE/GNOME/whatever working *with* FreeBSD a FreeBSD topic? > > - support of flash in Opera/Firefox/Whatever > > again BECAUSE WWW BROWSER ARE NOT PART OF FREEBSD. Isn't getting Flash working *with* FreeBSD (and browser of choice) a FreeBSD topic? > > - support of new/hot (literally)/super/extra graphics cards from NVidia. > > BECAUSE Xorg IS NOT PART OF FREEBSD. Isn't getting X.org working *with* FreeBSD (with a particular graphics adapter) a FreeBSD topic? > > While IMHO full graphics support (graphics support, not GUI) should be > part of kernel as driver, it isn't. Isn't that, too, a FreeBSD topic -- whether graphics support should be addressed as part of the FreeBSD base system's scope? > > As NVidia card Xorg module does need some kernel wrapper (no idea why) - > then there is nothing wrong for interested people to write it as ADD > ON/PORT. > > - asking about bloat level, visual apperance comparision etc. between > FreeBSD with KDE and Windoze. > > because KDE ARE NOT PART OF FREEBSD, and FreeBSD on it's own doesn't have > (fortunately) any "desktop environment" so it can't be compared. Isn't "FreeBSD + $foo" a FreeBSD topic? > > if someone like to compare KDE with windoze - OK but NOT THIS GROUP! KDE is not an operating system and -- despite jokes to the contrary -- installing MS Windows on a computer does indeed give one an operating system. It takes something like FreeBSD, in addition to KDE, to have a valid OS+GUI comparison with MS Windows. > > SO - please just stop ALL NTG topics here. this group really lacks > moderator. not someone that will remove posts he considers "lame" but all > that is off topic. > > Off topic=not about FreeBSD OS. I'm amazed that you seem to think that making FreeBSD do what one wants it to do isn't a FreeBSD topic. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Paul Graham: "Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to build programs out of the wrong concepts."
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