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Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market
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On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> Why even bother?  Its over, just embrace the future and be like this
> happy Mac user:
>=20
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/happy_desktop_user.jpg

I have Macs at work (typing on one now), and a mac at home.  I like =
them.

I recently installed FreeBSD 10 on an Intel i5 NUC.  16GB ram, and a =
120GB m-SATA SSD.
I put a nice keyboard and an old 19=94 Dell monitor on it, used =
vidconsole to make the screen
green on black, and a decent resolution.

It=92s just like being back in the 80s, when Unix had a desktop market, =
only much, much faster.=