From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 14:01:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D05E2106564A for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) Received: from smssmtp.cbord.com (mx1.cbord.com [24.39.174.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9122D8FC16 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 14:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rvm@CBORD.com) X-AuditID: ac1f0165-00000ff800000220-3e-490f04440375 Received: from Email.cbord.com ([10.1.1.100]) by smssmtp.cbord.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:01:39 -0500 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:00:04 -0500 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20081102102117.0818f271@tau.draftnet> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? Thread-Index: Ack9F7gozNZaHIsATn223QkQqNCmcgAo848g References: <490C0159.3000908@rawbw.com><20081101163322.B10508@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl><20081102164309.GE3366@georg.localdomain><20081102183212.G18776@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081102102117.0818f271@tau.draftnet> From: "Bob McConnell" To: X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Subject: RE: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:01:13 -0000 On Behalf Of Bruce Cran > And what about OS X? To me it seems it's a combination of the > user-friendliness of Windows with the power of *NIX. And lots of > people have moved over to using it. Yes, it appears to be very nice. The programmer in the next cube bought his own laptop just so he can use it, with MS-Windows running in a VM. But it can only be run on overpriced hardware available from a single supplier. Until there are multiple sources, I don't consider it worth evaluating. Bob McConnell