From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 17 18:53:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FAF37BCA8 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8436E3F9F for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:37:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA13595; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:31:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAizaytA; Thu Aug 17 13:31:43 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA19386; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 13:33:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200008172033.NAA19386@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Sun's web site To: jcwells@nwlink.com (Jason C. Wells) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:33:28 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org (Arun Sharma), chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jason C. Wells" at Aug 17, 2000 10:58:19 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > But FreeBSD is a server OS. FreeBSD is a general purpose OS which is only suitable for deployment on servers because of the dearth of good workstation software availability, which is itself a self-perpetuating prophecy brought on by statements like the one quoted above. 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-chat" in the body of the message