From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 5:13:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B133337B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id FAA21595 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:13:53 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:09:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River In-Reply-To: <200104100445.f3A4j3m05037@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9 Apr 2001 it looks like Mark Sergeant composed: mserge->A desktop I suppose would be a system that is used (everyday for me at least) mserge->for your normal tasks on a computer be it writing perl /php /html /sh etc. mserge->Browsing the web, irc, icq, playing music / videos and playing the odd game of mserge->quake etc. I use FreeBSD very happily as my only OS on my laptop, a primary mserge->desktop @ home & @ work. mserge-> mserge->Cheers, mserge-> mserge->Mark mserge-> That's what I thought. Now where does FreeBSD fall short ? I work at a Linux based company and use FreeBSD all day as my production box. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message