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Date:      Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:44:19 +0000
From:      "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"
Message-ID:  <499c70c0701260844l512ecdfbqf868b82b6d68b452@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17849.59412.208973.390543@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <45B8B022.1020909@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <20070125140805.B115E13C459@mx1.freebsd.org> <b34be8420701252354j60947cifa825502eeaf5b6b@mail.gmail.com> <17849.59412.208973.390543@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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On 1/26/07, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
> Juha Saarinen writes:
>
> >  > People from the media doesnt know that FreeBSD Unix exists.
> >
> >  Rubbish. I have known about the existence of FreeBSD (and other BSD
> >  variants) for a great many years now.
>
>         Indeed.  Not long after Linux appeared on the radar of the
> general public, the tech reporter for my local paper (which, being
> the /Boston Globe/ is not quite as tech-challenged as most
> publications, but even so) did a very nice and very accurate called
> something like "The most important OS you've never heard about."
>
>
>
>                                 Robert Huff

I think PCBSD 1.3 and DesktopBSD 1.6 will change this soon, since they
are making FreeBSD desktop ready for workstations, pcs, and laptops

Check http://www.bsdstats.org/ and see PCBSD rank now ;)

The only thing is needed to boost FreeBSD image as a desktop ready OS
is missing Flash native player.

I have filled feature request in adobe to port Flash player to FreeBSD as well.

-- 
Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/



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