From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 15:47:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rhea.worldonline.nl (rhea.worldonline.nl [195.241.48.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0053D37B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eric@monkey-online.net) Received: from monkey-online.net (unknown [195.241.113.9]) by rhea.worldonline.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE4D36BD8; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:47:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3B5DFC3D.85978123@monkey-online.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:52:45 +0200 From: Eric Veraart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sung Nae Cho Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! References: 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 > 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