Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:51:29 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <20010410095129.A12508@marx.marvic.chum> In-Reply-To: <15059.4480.67277.332449@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:58:24AM -0500 References: <22683751@toto.iv> <15059.4480.67277.332449@guru.mired.org>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:58:24AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> I'll add my voice to the chorus - I'm quite happy with FreeBSD as a
> desktop. It would be better if there were better support for new
> hardware, but that's a minor matter. On the other hand, I've never
> used either Windows or the Mac as my day in and day out desktop.
I will chime in and say that FreeBSD makes a great workstation.
Unfortunately, I don't think it is ready for the desktop. I don't think
it ever will be either, because the developers do not seem to be
interested in that aspect of computing.
One of the reasons that Linux is touted as a desktop OS is because the
Linux crowd is pushing in that direction. To do that, you see projects
such as ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architechture) that are improving on
the OSS sound drivers. My point is that people use their computers for a
variety of tasks, and some of those tasks are not as well supported on
FreeBSD.
- v
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