From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 17:31:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914A11065673 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:31:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from varga.michal@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185118FC15 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so431801bwz.13 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:31:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references :content-type:organization:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VFjjhb/wLOinAiiQiQYvQm9SjHgdMiozJkeEMYYHg7Y=; b=Hxc1YOJ0mGmWzSRgDVq7MfC33GdC35FIbl6fpCcRF6kHRk9Z6i8oH/dy7WPcJ8jzXM SjiWyT/sKXY9b2jXjdc09BIgHedkfcRL/npx/Bk8TmWxREknXRaRtXaNzcHWBHoCR/Qw ylKzysNGCDzScpj9LM2enn69xSMLf2Z8CHDP4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:organization :date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=hq2zk9aHoBjdlQyzVCtsryleVnV89ZARu1AN1bcaW9UwcTqTWbYpCE4AZo9SyVDpbb MQLU38ecyJAngYU7ADyRpDAipzntVH3Yd2ZS8JtAUmFnu8a29xQGRnX9+XKwo7QuePmx /5KSp+ICFB4VB/VWeHm4PRwC5XC6S3YEpOwx4= Received: by 10.204.83.212 with SMTP id g20mr68351bkl.55.1301419650430; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.101.2] (254.166.broadband10.iol.cz [90.177.166.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm3587772bkv.12.2011.03.29.10.27.28 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:27:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Michal Varga To: Paul Schmehl In-Reply-To: References: <20110329013223.ddca7453.jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Stonehenge Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:27:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1301419646.71335.123.camel@xenon> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jason Hsu , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to switch from Linux to BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:31:22 -0000 On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:43 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > FreeBSD is first and foremost a server OS. Could you support your claim with some examples, please? > Desktop support is lacking when compared to the other major OSes > (Windows, Mac and Linux). Here too. How is "desktop support" on FreeBSD lacking? > You can make it > work, if you want to, but that's not what its primary function is. Where can I find some detailed information about what is FreeBSD's "primary funtion" and what does that even mean in the first place? > If you want a user friendly desktop OS, FreeBSD is probably not your best > choice. Why? How is KDE, Gnome, XFCE or some potential other desktop environment different from the literally exactly same one running on, say, Linux? m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)