From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 18:01:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4691C16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:01:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D36243D1D for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:01:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:02:10 -0600 Message-ID: <4049310A.1090902@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:01:46 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Martinez References: <9C6E1232-6EED-11D8-9CD3-000A959A1868@mac.com> <200403051728.21133.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <3CA9695E-6F10-11D8-9CD3-000A959A1868@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3CA9695E-6F10-11D8-9CD3-000A959A1868@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2004 02:02:11.0187 (UTC) FILETIME=[09861C30:01C4031F] cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 02:01:49 -0000 John Martinez wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2004, at 5:28 PM, Johnson David wrote: > >> ...There is no reason we have to hang our heads in shame whenever the >> Windows or Mac desktops are mentioned. While FreeBSD can't do >> everything the other guy can, don't forget that the other guy can't do >> everything FreeBSD with KDE/GNOME can. > > > I wasn't trying to bash FreeBSD at all. I think it's a great operating > system. Heck, the reason I even went Mac OS X was because of its BSD > foundation. > > I still think that FreeBSD and most of the UNIX and UNIX-like desktops > need a little more work to make them equal to the commercially > available applications on the Mac. IMO, Apple has done a great job of > bringing BSD to the masses, and the user will never even have to know > that there is a command line underneath it all. My family members use > Macs and they don't know a think about UNIX. Now if FreeBSD could do > that... > > -john > > Give 'em Apple's budget, and I bet it would happen ;-) Kevin Kinsey