From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 13:26: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 293D537B416; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:26:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBKLQ2R29769; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:26:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <022801c1899c$ecb54250$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "John Baldwin" Cc: , "Gilbert Gong" , "Jeremiah Gowdy" References: Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:26:01 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John writes: > FreeBSD is never going to integrate a GUI > into its kernel. Good. > That should just be phenomenally stupid. Other phenomenally stupid things have been done in the past, e.g., rewriting a crude UNIX kernel from scratch and then hyping it as the best UNIX OS on the planet. > However, it can provide optimizations to make > the OS better support desktop software. Uh-oh. Such as? And what happens to its support of server software? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message