On Fri 2009-12-11 07:30:01 UTC-0500, Carmel (carmel...@hotmail.com) wrote: > It is really hard to push the merits of an operating system when you > have to give detailed instructions to the potential end user on how to > get a "mouse" to work, when all they have to do in a Win32 based system
Last time I had X working was in FreeBSD 6.3, with no dramas. Things may have changed a bit since then, but the general impression I get is that most of Xorg's design decisions are made by Linux developers, and so folks using Xorg in FreeBSD may have to put up with a few compromises to get it to work reliably. To be fair to FreeBSD, I don't think you can really call this as a fault of the OS since Xorg is not part of FreeBSD. > is plug it in. I really cannot fathom a seven year old having to modify > an XML document to facilitate their playing a "How to Spell" CD, > assuming that they could even get the CD operational. I don't believe FreeBSD is intended to be used (let alone administered) by children. There are Linux distros better suited to children. Edubuntu springs to mind. Ubuntu is pretty much plug-and-play & point-and-click on most PCs made in the last few years. Certainly no XML editing required to get Xorg working. Regards Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
