From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 23 11:06:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10224 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 11:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.webweaver.net (xwin.webweaver.net [208.138.29.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10143 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 11:06:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.webweaver.net) Received: (from nicole@localhost) by xwin.webweaver.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA21927; Sat, 23 May 1998 11:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <8677.895915412@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 11:08:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: FreeBSD A Solution For Business Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA10148 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 23-May-98 Jordan K. Hubbard wisely wrote: >> I must humbly disagree. FreeBSD is not an alternative desktop system for a >> business environment. No Windozes application user is going to give up Word I Agree Personally I don't want us to go the way of NT in trying to be an everything sy stem. Remember, M$ goals are to get rid of Win95 after this new release and merg e everything together into one OS. Then just have M$ workstation and M$ Server. As we have been shown, there is really very little difference between the two. I would rather have FreeBSD focus on being a Killer Server that can also be use d as a desktop. Lets face it, no one but those who love UNIX and people who have serious tasks to accomplish would use a UNIX OS as their desktop. If your looking to provide an alternative to M$ windows, I would suggest a new project or helping those already underway. Maybe a seperate project called FreeB SD Desktop, Featuring X windows from the first boot up and " everything" GUIed, becouse that is what it is going to take. I only hope that that stays secondary to making/keeping FreeBSD the most robust Server platform. Nicole nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- -- I tried an internal modem once, but it hurt when I walked -- --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message