From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 16:21:00 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0B39F93 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:21:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (mail-ob0-f170.google.com [209.85.214.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65228AFC for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:21:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id uz6so11228826obc.15 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:20:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:content-type:mime-version:subject:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to; bh=gKv5pwnZSBqPlLpm5s0jAdHbB7zgwC1d/sfRjvyREyk=; b=BtkcUM4clJZg0g90hjP/AzaTAH6pjwhE5T/LDaboNLNDSEEtFu0dJHR/FWSh1oWDuf ugXGLBSpbenqsbra0wZh3Lwb9i1dCHOgTBOBDhh3kkgdxkNJNOOuCd7jw/KVRCqZ0DVt T07lJaCrb1Cdanst00yAIRsYFb+T69Yqn0d/PTC2uBVgP7d1TwaRQ9/klKl9Hl5VfFty +w+IFJKrrLlYr7OUt1ICC3Ma/1sSuqxwb2hub6CvChI4JArdBohw+hJcCJbxpstksjfp ySSy5KcW4Oz4bT5StmaoPfJSnj637/wvfqdOYXWc6OXyP4jjxftwdTMgUtV2AbFQWDbF NnnQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkP2pWo9Mqhm3ofrKl3Yd6MrHqqI4k18u9w3N8Br8jIpesjo2m6ctxRr5vZsMSbPQcSA1WJ X-Received: by 10.182.24.226 with SMTP id x2mr2412189obf.13.1396368774167; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jims-mini.pfmechanics.com ([208.123.73.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cn1sm47486929oeb.11.2014.04.01.09.12.51 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market From: Jim Thompson In-Reply-To: <1396353429.56465.7.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 11:12:50 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <84CEE725-93E4-40BC-8092-5768E9DB47E6@netgate.com> References: <1396353429.56465.7.camel@powernoodle.corp.yahoo.com> To: Sean Bruno X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:00:36 +0000 Cc: Eitan Adler , hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:21:00 -0000 On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Sean Bruno wrote: > Why even bother? Its over, just embrace the future and be like this > happy Mac user: >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/happy_desktop_user.jpg I have Macs at work (typing on one now), and a mac at home. I like = them. I recently installed FreeBSD 10 on an Intel i5 NUC. 16GB ram, and a = 120GB m-SATA SSD. I put a nice keyboard and an old 19=94 Dell monitor on it, used = vidconsole to make the screen green on black, and a decent resolution. It=92s just like being back in the 80s, when Unix had a desktop market, = only much, much faster.=