Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Sep 18 08:15:35 UTC 2012


In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209181004510.44656 at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Wojci
ech Puchar writes:

>That's all true. But do anyone understand why there is still so much 
>pressure for every open source OS and specifically *BSD on "default 
>desktop environment" or similar ideas?

Tell you what:

When you have at least 75% of the user population of FreeBSD agreeing
on which window manager we should offer as the default, we can talk
about this.

Until such a consensus exists, this discussion is just a waste of time.

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