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On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Robert Marella wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 03:14 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
>> Johnson David wrote:
>>
>>> Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix 
>>> shops. But
>>> that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the 
>>> desktop
>>> today. We need to stop the official discouragement of desktop 
>>> FreeBSD.
>>
>> MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD".  It is available today, and it works
>> better than anything else at being a "desktop".
>
> Does it work on my intel hardware?

Not in public it doesn't.  That is irrelevant to the discussion.  
FreeBSD does not work on my PPC HW either.

Chad