From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 2 18:14:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A4937B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 18:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vpn35.ece.cmu.edu (VPN9.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.9]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f931ECP18683; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:14:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 17:49:58 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: James McNaughton , Mit Rowe Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <9560000.1002059397@vpn35.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <86g091pwzv.fsf@localhost.21stcentury.net> References: <86g091pwzv.fsf@localhost.21stcentury.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 On Tuesday, October 02, 2001 16:12:20 -0500, 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. +--->8 I use FreeBSD as my main desktop... but it's far from perfect. "Windows' stability is the best argument for Unix. Unix's desktops are the best argument for Windows." I keep hoping Microsoft will roll a version of Windows that (a) doesn't have a UI that affects me like chalk squeaking on a blackboard and (b) doesn't fall over on me constantly. The former is merely annoying, but even with Win2k I can expect IE or the desktop to crash on me (and in the latter case auto-restart) several times a day. (Note that (a) this happens to me even on a stock install, (b) it *doesn't* happen to most people, and (c) it doesn't happen if I give it limited use, such as a vmware session in which I only run IE; I assume my normal usage patterns just push it beyond its limits.) -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message