From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 13:31:32 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 4B9A837B419; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBKLVRR29796; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:31:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <023101c1899d$ae7bbc20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "John Baldwin" , "Jeremiah Gowdy" Cc: , "Gilbert Gong" References: Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:31:27 +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: > Well, 2 of them work for Apple, so they > would probably go with OS X. Uh-oh. Do they have an employment contract with Apple that makes any code they write anywhere property of Apple, or otherwise similarly endangers any work they might do on FreeBSD? > How about the specific environment of working > on software that runs on FreeBSD whether it be > the kernel, userland tools, or KDE. In that specific and unusual situation, the best desktop is usually the target OS for the development, unless you have multiple machines. > This includes adding tweaks for uniprocessor > boxes, for example. What sort of "tweaks"? > In fact, the BSD scheduler actually prefers > interactive user interface processes to > background CPU-intensive "server" processes. So much for server performance, eh? How does it distinguish between the two? > The tricky bit here is Windows ties its OS and > desktop environment together a bit tightly so > that it can avoid competition ... That is done to improve desktop performance, not to avoid competition. Competition is not a problem for Windows. > If someone ported KDE to Windows/DOS, which > OS would you recommend as the best desktop= > friendly OS to run it on? Some flavor of UNIX. > If someone ported the Windows UI to FreeBSD, > which UI would you then recommend to a FreeBSD > user? Some flavor of Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message