From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 10 23:22:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C2D15DE6 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA24343; Tue, 11 May 1999 00:22:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3737CC9B.42DFD44E@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 00:22:19 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicole Harrington Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K.Hubbard" , Dru Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nicole Harrington wrote: > > Personally IMNSHO, > If FreeBSD wants to go after the desktop market I would like to see it split > into to two different releases. Desktop and server. Why? > Everytime I tell people about FreeBSD they say "yea but Linux has more > drivers for (this cool thing that no one else ever used or came out yesterday) > and FreeBSD doesn't. > Thus, FreeBSD could use the same "here is a driver I wrote while wacked on > jolt one night for that 1970 Hardrive you can't live without" that Linux has > without detracting from the "We test everything before we commit or release any > code into the release branch. That's my point about the difference between a workstation and a PC. All we really need to do to make FreeBSD a great workstation platform is don't break the IDE driver. Better installation for modems and printers would help, too, but those would help servers as well. There's just not that much difference. Who cares if we support every piece of ISA trash on the market, as long as we support several of the really common pieces well? > Also, the GUI features could be enhanced without placing too much code bloat > into the server code. Plus each could be genericly tuned/optimised to satisfy > each requirment easier/better. > > I know fractioning things is often bad, but I truly belive this could help > more than it would hurt. Given the relatively homogenous nature of the hardware, I don't see any need to differentiate the two at all. Let's face it, a FreeBSD work- station is just a server with IDE drives and a GOOD graphics card. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message