Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
ons, I was hesitant into using PCBSD for this because I just like FreeBSD ports system and package management much more, as I like the fact that it's closer to UNIX (in my opinion). I cannot say I expected a good "welcoming" of this suggestion, but I thought it was worth discussing it

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
something, I think it's obvious that FreeBSD can't get much attention as a desktop system if no effort is put into it. It is not a bad thing being tied to the server concept, but I just think FreeBSD would also be an excellent desktop system with a little effort. -- Lorenzo Cogotti

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
official desktop utilities, since (official utilities) are all targeted for this environment, you can, for example, create a partitioning tool and other utilities can communicate with it nicely (because it is well documented and easy to find out). So I can'

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
installation, providing a customized version of the environment, and so on... A FreeBSD project (like geli or gpart) could even go as far as providing an official GUI utility next to the text based utility, without hoping for the specific desktop project to provide it (like devd integration). -

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
KDE GUI is provided and so on, no ambiguity, consistency and no additional dependency is involved, just a clear standard. I can't see how this could bother FreeBSD philosophy or servers in any way. The only objective is introducing a standard for GUI application development that Fre

Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
Il 17/09/2012 17:42, Poul-Henning Kamp ha scritto: > In message , Lorenzo Cogotti > writ > es: >> Hi, >> I was wondering about the possibility of FreeBSD to provide an official >> supported graphical environment. > We already do: It's called "X11"

Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

2012-09-17 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
desktop field, would this idea be useful and worth implementing? Thanks, -- Lorenzo Cogotti ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: USB Texas Instruments CDCE modem not recognized by cdce

2011-12-08 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
Il giorno gio, 08/12/2011 alle 16.35 +0100, Lorenzo Cogotti ha scritto: > I tried editing if_cdce.c adding to the static array mentioned in my > first mail: > > {USB_VPI(USB_VENDOR_TI, 0x6060, 0)}, > I tried to remove this edit and recompile the kernel module, the scary mess

Re: USB Texas Instruments CDCE modem not recognized by cdce

2011-12-08 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
ic way by FreeBSD? Since everything I have on this desktop has been detected flawlessly, this was the only thing that made me suffer. -- Lorenzo Cogotti ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

USB Texas Instruments CDCE modem not recognized by cdce

2011-12-08 Thread Lorenzo Cogotti
if I missed to report some crucial information, if so, please let me know. Regards. -- Lorenzo Cogotti ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "free