Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:50:19 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux distro Message-ID: <20080220235019.GF97072@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <1203468277.6470.114.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <276406.27436.qm@web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20080219114803.V2675@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1203419902.6470.80.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20080219125031.R2835@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1203423219.6470.86.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20080219154929.GA91805@demeter.hydra> <1203468277.6470.114.camel@laptop2.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:44:37AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 08:49 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > The way you phrased it makes it sound like FreeBSD is simply unsuited to > > use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this > > from a Thinkpad laptop with FreeBSD on it, and it's by far the best > > "desktop" OS I've ever had the pleasure to use. > > Me too. But you have to be more enabled to get a lot of the software the > is wanted on a desktop system working. Case in point: Gnome is not > automatically installed (or kde or any other wm). Web browsing can be > tricky because you have to get wrappers for plugins and so on. For you > and me- we don't mind because we know the result will be fantastic, but > others who just want to get on with it it can be a pain. More enabled . . . ? You have to be "more enabled" to use *anything* that isn't preinstalled by the hardware vendor. That basically means anything that isn't MS Windows or MacOS X. After all, Linux, FreeBSD, Plan 9 . . . none of them are "automatically installed" on any computer, with rare exceptions. > > Therefore, I'd say a desktop version of FreeBSD would be better > described as a workstation. Considering we're comparing to Ubuntu, I'd > say thats a fair statement. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] McCloctnick the Lucid: "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do."
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