From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Feb 3 18:25: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57B937B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B8E43F85 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9R00217INWPS@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:23:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:17:34 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-188.acuson.com ([157.226.46.188]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0HJ88; Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:18:55 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 18:24:21 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD Ready for the Desktop? In-reply-to: <20030204020619.8031.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com> To: Haikal Saadh , freebsd-advocacy Message-id: <200302031824.21656.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030204020619.8031.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 03 February 2003 06:06 pm, Haikal Saadh wrote: > So in summary, I like to say: The OS is capable of making a good > desktop, but the minute it starts to ship with good packages, we're > talking. Hmmm, I wonder how Windows succeeded then. I understand your point, but the lack of additional third party software on the install CD hasn't hindered Microsoft any. Is this just a matter of having to be twice as good as Windows to get half the attention? Maybe someone could make a "Desktop FreeBSD" CD, with various useful and popular packages for the desktop user. Sort of one CD version of the Toolkit geared towards desktop users. David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message