Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Sep 17 18:05:04 UTC 2012
In message <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB+fO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Zhihao Yuan writes:
>Well, let's make it more straightforward. I hope people can agree with
>this: a default, officially supported modern desktop environment is
>essential to FreeBSD.
No, it is not.
It would certainly be nice to have as an option, but I would hate
to have to deal with it, when I squeeze FreeBSD into embedded systems
which have neither graphics outputs nor keyboard or mouse inputs.
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