From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 15 15:27:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailin9.bigpond.com (juicer34.bigpond.com [139.134.6.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB4237B424; Tue, 15 May 2001 15:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.58]) by mailin9.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GDEEM400.AEY; Wed, 16 May 2001 08:32:28 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-177.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.177]) by mail1.bigpond.com (Claudes-Assertive-MailRouter V2.9c 1/4729612); 16 May 2001 08:27:37 Message-ID: <04ed01c0dd8e$2c57f3f0$0300a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Tim Erlin" , "David Johnson" , Cc: , References: <20010515192449.181.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: I'm leaving Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:27:05 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've never gotten the sense (after maybe 6 months of > actually using FreeBSD) that anybody wanted FreeBSD on > my parent's PC. I haven't been reading the advocacy > list, so maybe I missed it, but I certainly didn't > install FreeBSD because I thought it would make a > great workstation. > > To be even halfway practical as a workstation for many people a workable Win9x emulator would be essential ... last time I looked, none of them was past pre-alpha quality. Has anything changed recently ?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message