Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:10:09 -0800 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Gilbert Gong" <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>, "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Message-ID: <000f01c1899a$b4c5b7f0$03e2cbd8@server> References: <XFMail.011220121612.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> If you think that I'm going to try to work on the > FreeBSD kernel using Visual C++ on a Windows box > because you think that is the best desktop > environment for me to use, then you must be > smoking some serious stuff. You are saying that > the desktop software (X) that can be run on > FreeBSD is not appropriate for ANY use by ANY person. My perspective, as a programmer, is that (a) there's a difference between a desktop and a development machine and (b) you should always try to develop on the platform you're developing for. By that reasoning, no I do not think you should use Visual C++ to develop for FreeBSD, although I have written portable apps in VC++ that compile nicely under FreeBSD as well. I didn't say that X wasn't useful to some people. I said that it is my opinion that it does not make a good desktop, and it's existance doesn't make FreeBSD a desktop OS. If the inclusion of 3rd party desktop software makes an OS considered a "desktop OS", then I suppose we could call HURD a desktop OS as well, along with any bare kernel that can support X. I consider a desktop OS to be a little more than a kernel that can execute X. ___________________________________________ Jeremiah Gowdy IT Manager - Senior Network Administrator Sherline Products Inc 3235 Executive Ridge Vista CA 92083-8527 IT Dept: 760-727-9492 Sales: 1-800-541-0735 International: (760) 727-5857 Fax: (760) 727-7857 ___________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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