From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 10 7:47:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774D037B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:47:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vcardona@home.com) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010410144753.MDLO26372.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@marx.marvic.chum>; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:47:53 -0700 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id f3AEpTA12578; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:51:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:51:29 -0500 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: Mike Meyer Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDi Acquired by Embedded Computing Firm Wind River Message-ID: <20010410095129.A12508@marx.marvic.chum> References: <22683751@toto.iv> <15059.4480.67277.332449@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <15059.4480.67277.332449@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 08:58:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message