From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 02:36:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F257116A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:36:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC68E43D54 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DD5431C0008E for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:36:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C04971C0008A for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:36:20 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050212023620787.C04971C0008A@mwinf1108.wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:36:20 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <23506402.20050212033620@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <420D669A.20000@incubus.de> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE6@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <420D669A.20000@incubus.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:36:22 -0000 Matthias Buelow writes: > MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and it works > better than anything else at being a "desktop". Considering the sorry > state of integrated "desktops" on Unix today (i.e., Gnome and KDE) and > compare it with Windows, do you really think that will convince any > Windows user? Windows really is bad enough already, why should they > change for a much worse user interface. For those of us that have been > using X11 with various window managers for the last decade or more, that > isn't an issue -- we're used to a different way of working, but those > Windows types expect quite different things, which they'll only find in > MacOS, outside of Windows, for the forseeable future. Yes! So it's best to forget the battles one has lost, and concentrate on the battles that one can still win. -- Anthony