From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 17:53:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A4F10657A8 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from animelovin@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486598FC20 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:53:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfy7 with SMTP id fy7so1792416vcb.13 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:53:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:organization:user-agent:mime-version :to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zXAn24VRlomzBU+fillwwjK+RDDXUf+wcaclqtwQUxc=; b=IIe5wPlS5qsJJfivikFBK5tYhheDsn1+V8UgOZx/wUOJvuhewdaYxCOZ5dMUM1Vs63 uPBsbjuZcHpT1/A+J8uGKJWvVaJ8mvRwXBKQqXZEdv6xL5ttBpOEMRu2GNbns+0pzSCl ZWnTf4+kP8XpuRyhGC5HUMmnpIVu+uR7YC7Cg8uIOewcnrz02UuqJYELVXt1CElk1Jbi x3XVJr+V0Y9PGQd/aueX2uCgtveI+W7fkNofL6fVZGQxxlAMBQXC1p5ssW3YVHHQU/Fr jHwF5PAnsSUZAwszGhY39uKBsFXZYaAFxEfc0MwmUUZuAH8hkgl6p29Ppr3eQqzKdd4t lF9Q== Received: by 10.221.1.80 with SMTP id np16mr3441612vcb.33.1338573206402; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (modemcable107.221-22-96.mc.videotron.ca. [96.22.221.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n2sm4082416vdj.3.2012.06.01.10.53.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC9019A.8040601@gthcfoundation.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:53:30 -0400 From: Etienne Robillard Organization: gthcfoundation.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Nehren , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20120601155935.GF15877@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> In-Reply-To: <20120601155935.GF15877@isuckatdomains.members.linode.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: erob@gthcfoundation.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:53:27 -0000 On 06/01/2012 11:59 AM, Chris Nehren wrote: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:03:26 -0700 , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: >> Dear All , >> >> There is a thread >> >> "Why Are You Using FreeBSD ?" >> >> >> I think another thread with the specified subject '"Why Are You NOT Using >> FreeBSD ?" may be useful : >> >> >> If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please >> list those areas with most important first to least important last ? > > I use Mac desktops. X11 and I don't get along. I still live in a > fullscreen green-on-black terminal, of course, and do all of my actual > work in either the Mac's BSD userland or a FreeBSD machine over ssh. > > So, really, this is nothing to do with FreeBSD per se, and I will > consider reevaluating FreeBSD as a desktop when something not X11 comes > along (although I don't see that as incredibly likely). You mean like a TV screen? :) Clearly for me I prefer FreeBSD for server operations and Linux for desktop although I frequently choose FreeBSD for desktop computing and in particular DVD playback with ffmpeg/mplayer. Cheers, Etienne -- Etienne Robillard Occupation: Software Developer Company: Green Tea Hackers Club Email: erob@gthcfoundation.org Website: gthcfoundation.org Skype ID: incidah