> > - the first thing JOS should do on bootup is to initialize the desktop
> > (like MacOS) so you have no text based views
>
> I disagree. While I believe that a gui-only system is nice, many people
> prefer text-based user interfaces or command-line interfaces. Plus,
> they are much simpler to create and will give us something to test our
> code on once the bare-bones system is ready.
Right. We don't want a Windoze/MacOS-like system where one *MUST* have a
working GUI to be able to do anything. I'm personally a command line freak
(the only icon I use is the one that launches xterm :), and as such, as
believe the best way to go is to make sure the system is equally useful
both from the command line and from the GUI. One should *NEVER* have to use
the GUI to accomplish a certain task, just as one should *NEVER* have to use
the command line to accomplish a certain task (in terms of configuring the
system etc...).
Last time I browsed the Wiki it seemed that the general opinion is pretty
much the same. Is that still true? I hope so.
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