From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 20 15:08:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03306 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:08:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.fiw.net ([208.213.103.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA03301 for ; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:08:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from douggarrick@fiw.net) Received: from fiw.net [208.213.100.154] by mail.fiw.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-4.06) id A6121980096; Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:19:46 MDT Message-ID: <367D8618.D0925CE4@fiw.net> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:19:53 -0700 From: "Douglas C. Garrick" Organization: Western Wyoming Networks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I want native FreeBSD Apps Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think that FreeBSD is the ultimate desktop OS. I have been using FreeBSD as my home and work desktops for 3 years, plus I use FreeBSD at work for various network tasks. My real question is however, "What does it take to get application software vendors to start writing 'native' FreeBSD apps?". I just tried the Scriptics TCL/TK plugin for Netscape and I haven't got it working yet. Then I found out that I need to run the linux emulation to get the plugin to run and that sort of bothers me. I just installed linux on a laptop and to tell you the truth, I am NOT impressed with linux. Other than the fact that there is a lot of application support for linux there seems to be little else worthy of note about linux. I did not write to run linux into the ground, instead I wanted to find out what I can do to prompt the apps vendors to write native FreeBSD apps. Doug Garrick Manager of Computer Services Bridger Coal Company, Rock Springs Wyoming douggarrick@fiw.net doug.garrick@pacificorp.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message