From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 15:50:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from castle.dreaming.org (castle.dreaming.org [216.221.214.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2877037B401 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6OMoTh77100; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:50:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) Received: from shadow (shadow.branchmedia.com [216.129.214.38]) by castle.dreaming.org (8.11.4/8.11.4av) with SMTP id f6OMoRS77092; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:50:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) From: "Mit Rowe" To: "Sung Nae Cho" , Subject: RE: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:50:13 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 I'm a Systems and Network administrator, not a Office Administrator, I don't eat snickers bars (bad for the teeth), and since there's no room in my server room for me to sit comfortably i have a real desk in a real office. I wouldn't use FreeBSD for a desktop if my life depended on it. It's not what is was designed for, and quite frankly would likely take away from the reasons it *was* designed for: a nice, solid, dependable and reliable networked operating system. For that, I use nothing but. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sung Nae Cho > Sent: July 24, 2001 18:41 PM > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! > > > Hi, > > This is regarding that recent performance issue (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, > 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 > have "async" otpion turned on in my /etc/fstab, I'm glad the FreeBSD by > default enables the write cache for my hard disks. Come on, wake up! > 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! 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. I'm sick of this server administrators always crying for > stability. If FreeBSD won't take use of all the capabilities offered in > todays hard drives, I won't be using it! I'll switch right over to Linux. > Come on, desktop is the king and FreeBSD should focus itself evolving in > desktop market. If you gonna whine about stability, go back to FreeBSD > 2.x, 3.x. For me, FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x should be more desktop oriented, and > desktops need performance!!!!! > > > Sung N. Cho > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message