Sorry.
Vulpes Velox
kitbsdlist2 at HotPOP.com
Wed Sep 17 10:36:08 PDT 2003
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:56:18 -0400
"Person, Roderick" <personrp at ccbh.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: kitsune [mailto:kitsune at gmx.co.uk]
> > >> FreeBSD 4.x: ~2M lines of code (including kernel modules)
> > >> MacOS X: ~6M lines of code (not including kexts)
> > >>
> >> >It takes a lot of work to make a usable desktop OS.
> >>
> >> But, isn't the majority of the additional lines dealing with the fancy
> >> graphics stuff, what is it called cocoa/liguid/carbon or what ever?
> >
> >Yeah, but in this case that is the job of X and the toolkits and/or WMs
> that
> >uses X.
>
> So if we combine X with FreeBSD we've got a desktop OS :)
Well X seems to be running quite nicely here and as a desktop, using fluxbox :)
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