From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 16 11:32:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF74137B41B for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:32:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBGJW8187551; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:32:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:32:08 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: UNIX on the Desktop (was: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs?) In-Reply-To: <000401c1865f$fac145f0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Message-ID: <20011216112759.U16958-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Because I consider UNIX to be useful as a server. I don't see any place for > UNIX on the desktop, except as a geek curosity, and so I don't worry about > that; but its utility as a server is well established, and that is what > interests me. i don't really have a response. i have *several* desktop UNIX workstations, ranging from OpenBSD/sparc to FreeBSD 4.5, and FreeBSD-CURRENT. it's.. enlightening to think that anyone would say that UNIX is not appropriate for the desktop, when it works so well for it - at least, for what i do. i'm curious, why would you say it doesn't work well? no flame intended, i'm just wondering. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message