On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:36:20AM -0500, william moss wrote:
>
> FreeBSD supports XFCE Via its package manager (pkg) or /usr/ports, so it
> must be possible to run XFCE w/o the systemd daemon(s) or shared objects.
>
> Also, I configured server farms for decades (retired now) and a simple
> GUI was convenient. People, even highly technical one, are pictorially
> oriented; as a species we relate to images.

Especially, it appears, mathematicians. That's why mathematical
notation is so two-dimmensional. Making it linear is a concession to
typesetters, not to mathematicians.

> In that context we ran the
> CDE (common desktop environment) and its derivatives at Bell Labs (AT&T)
> using Sun SPARC and HP RISC servers.

Not familiar with that. Is it related to Inferno?

-- hendrik