Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:52:45 +0200 From: Eric Veraart <eric@monkey-online.net> To: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <3B5DFC3D.85978123@monkey-online.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241828050.18993-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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> Solaris). I don't care what you (people who are so stuck up with > stability) think, I use FreeBSD as a desktop and I need performance! I rather have a reliable computer than a fast one with which I've to keep my fingers crossed if it will boot this time. > FreeBSD is no longer for some dorky server administrator who does nothing > but chewing on snickers bar sitting in corner of some room full of racks > and HDD's. And, I bet most people use FreeBSD for desktop use, not as > server use! Not the people I know. And I don't eat snickers, I like Mars better ;) > I've shut down the computer by plugging the power plug out > just because I was upset or not in the moeed and all it cost me was some > extra time booting due to file system check. I've never had any of my > files, emails or anything like that being lost due to cold shutting my > computer. Good for you. Though I wouldn't recommend it. I saw a HD crash like that. I think you will say something else when all your files are gone. > Come on, desktop is the king and FreeBSD should focus itself evolving in > desktop market. In a networking environment, the desktop can't live without the server. The server can, however, live without the desktop. Get my point? > If you gonna whine about stability, go back to FreeBSD > 2.x, 3.x. With all my fancy new hardware unsupported? No thanx. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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