From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 11 12:40: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AAE14FF9 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15328; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:39:42 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd015307; Tue May 11 12:39:40 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA15534; Tue, 11 May 1999 12:39:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199905111939.MAA15534@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:39:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nicole@nmhtech.com, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, genisis@istar.ca In-Reply-To: <3737CC9B.42DFD44E@softweyr.com> from "Wes Peters" at May 11, 99 00:22:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? A workstation with IDE hardware? Oh, you mean a PC... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message