Date: 03 Feb 2003 18:56:52 -0800 From: Peter Kieser <pfak@telus.net> To: Haikal Saadh <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> Cc: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, freebsd-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD Ready for the Desktop? Message-ID: <1044327412.1180.11.camel@sharpie> In-Reply-To: <20030204020619.8031.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030204020619.8031.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com>
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I believe that FreeBSD is MUCH more ready for the desktop then any other operating system that I can think of, it is stable and fast, even on older hardware. Linux seems slow and sluggish on my computers, but FreeBSD is nice and breazy. Also, once setup. It can look nice, either with KDE or GNOME2. Someone needs to really get up the energy and make a Desktop BSD Distro, all Linux seems to be is for the desktop, well the sleek and fast BSD has absolutley nothing in the market. If you have the right programs installed, FreeBSD makes a great desktop for the home user, business, and for your old grandma. http://rage.trono.org/~peter/snapshots/ contains some screenshots of FreeBSD in action, and how slick you can make BSD feel on the desktop. I am running KDE 3.1 with XFree86 4.0.3. I used `XFree86 -configure` to setup my XFree86, I found this much easier then the menus that were provided, if only I had known about this when I first tried installing FreeBSD on the destkop, I would've been using it for 3 years, instead of just 3 months. Put it this way, FreeBSD is a good OS for a server and a desktop, and out-performs it's job on both. On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 18:06, Haikal Saadh wrote: > For a desktop machine to be easily useable, it needs software. The > 5.0 iso was quite lacking in this department. No openoffice for one. > I know that there are good reasons for packages not going on disc 1, > but most users do not have the resources (time, bandwidth, diskspace) > to install incredibly useful software like this. It would also give > the first impressions of being 'useless' and 'too much hassle' if a > usable desktop could not be installed within a reasonable about of > time. -- Peter Kieser pfak@telus.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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