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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:43:26 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy?
Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com>, 
Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com>,
	Gilbert Gong <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.org
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On 20-Dec-01 Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> 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?

Nothing silly.  One can just avoid doing bone-headed things.  Many things that
improve desktop performance _also_ improve server performance (respone time,
etc.)  They aren't as disparate as you think they are.

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