From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 2 14:48:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DFE37B409 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from osef.org (cherry46.theshop.net [63.67.33.111]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id f92LpTdr076243; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:51:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3BBA363A.DC679B01@osef.org> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:48:42 -0500 From: Scott Corey Organization: Open Source Education Foundation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James McNaughton Cc: Mit Rowe , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! References: <86g091pwzv.fsf@localhost.21stcentury.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For the past three (3) years I have used only FreeBSD for everything. Why anyone would want to use something else is beyond my comprehension. If it works great, and works stable, why not use it? BTW I run not only three web servers farms, but also we OSEF (Open Source Education Foundation) have K-12 children using it in their public schools. So wake up to the future, for it is here now. Scott James McNaughton wrote: > > "Mit Rowe" writes: > > > I wouldn't use FreeBSD for a desktop if my life depended on it. > > Yet for me at home, FreeBSD _is_ my main desktop. I use WinXX for > gaming only. > > > It's not what is was designed for, and quite frankly would likely take away > > from the reasons it *was* designed for: a nice, solid, dependable and > > reliable networked operating system. > > I can't speak for the designers, but I think it works just great for > both uses. I have one machine running as an internet gateway/print > server/database server/whatever else I think of server and one as a > desktop for email/net surfing/writing/et cetera. > > A great strength of the system -- in my opinion -- is the flexibility > available. You can configure it to suit your needs. So why exclude > entire domains of use? > > The original poster appears to be a troll anyway, so I'm not getting > upset. The core team and committers know what they're doing. > > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message