From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 21:26:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D009837B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:26:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA02201 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:26:16 -0700 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:22:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: FreeBSD Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River In-Reply-To: <20010410143043.I10996@tacacs.canterbury.ac.nz> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Tue, 10 Apr 2001 it looks like Richard B Mahoney composed: rbm49->In an attempt to keep things in perspective, I would like to rbm49->mention how satisfied I am with FreeBSD as a workstation. rbm49-> ......... I've been following this thread and I just have to ask "What defines a desktop ?" I have been able to run everything on FreeBSD that I could on Linux. My needs may be different than some. Could we define what a "desktop" machine _is_ or what it must run to hold that title ? -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message