From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 20 13:42:28 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 96BDE37B405; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBKLgOR29845; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:42:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <024601c1899f$365d63e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "John Baldwin" , "Jeremiah Gowdy" Cc: "Gilbert Gong" , References: Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:42:24 +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: > I think desktop OS is misnomer. UI and OS are > two separate things, regardless of how much MS > ties the two together. That is true in a strict sense, but today, no ordinary computer user would tolerate a desktop without a GUI. If someone really wants a CLI-based desktop, then UNIX suddenly becomes the OS of choice, as Windows can't even begin to support that sort of environment, whereas UNIX was born for it. It has also occurred to me that blind users might find UNIX to be a very friendly OS. They don't really need or want a GUI, and everything that UNIX can do can usually be done with plain text. > And you have said that you think FreeBSD is not > a viable desktop for specific circumstances. > That is equivalent to it not being valid for > _any_ circumstance. According to what logic? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message