From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 21:24:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCBA106567D for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:24:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.piggybox@virgin.net) Received: from smtprelay-virgin.hostedemail.com (smtprelay-virgin0134.hostedemail.com [64.99.136.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615558FC1E for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:24:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter.piggybox@virgin.net) Received: from smtprelay-virgin.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtpgrave06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC49F87F03 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay05.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 387F2191A; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:19 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 1 X-Spam-Summary: 2, 0, 0, 4a07b07d4dce7de6, bac5299263adec61, peter.piggybox@virgin.net, wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, RULES_HIT:355:379:404:599:601:945:965:966:967:973:980:988:989:1260:1261:1277:1312:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1516:1518:1519:1534:1541:1593:1594:1595:1596:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2194:2196:2199:2200:2393:2525:2551:2553:2559:2563:2682:2685:2857:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3027:3352:3622:3865:3867:3868:3869:3870:3871:3872:3873:3874:3876:3877:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4250:4361:4385:4390:4395:4860:5007:6114:6119:6120:6261:7679:7875:7901:7903:8501:9010:9025:9108:9388, 0, RBL:none, CacheIP:none, Bayesian:0.5, 0.5, 0.5, Netcheck:none, DomainCache:0, MSF:not bulk, SPF:, MSBL:none, DNSBL:none Received: from laptop.piggybox (client-81-110-22-201.watf.adsl.virgin.net [81.110.22.201]) by omf10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from laptop.piggybox (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laptop.piggybox (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBBL3J8L002890; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:19 GMT (envelope-from peter@laptop.piggybox) Received: (from peter@localhost) by laptop.piggybox (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id mBBL3JlX002889; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:19 GMT (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:19 +0000 From: Peter Harrison To: Wojciech Puchar Message-ID: <20081211210319.GA1080@laptop.piggybox> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081207121431.5dcb37f9@gom.home> <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: Da Rock , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:24:05 -0000 Thursday, 11 December 2008 at 12:28:00 +0100, Wojciech Puchar said: > > > >The possibility here is the bells and whistles strangely enough DO work > >in tune and without sore lips... FreeBSD could be THAT good. > > in bells and whistles windows is best. for those who require it paying a > bit for windows is not a problem. Well, I've been using FreeBSD for my main desktop since 4.6.2. I'm currently running 7.1-PRERELEASE on a Dell laptop where everything works except the modem. I'm typing this whilst listening to the BBC radio through the iplayer on the net in Firefox (mplayer plugin). I can connect my Palm TX and Ipod without problem when I need to. My removable drives are automatically mounted and unmounted using the thunar volume manager under Xfce. Personally, I don't see the issue with FreeBSD on the desktop - unless you need flash or nvidia graphics on amd64 (which I don't). But I suppose YMMV. Regards, Peter Harrison. > > Those who need to do actual work, we have FreeBSD for example > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"