Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 13:34:53 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "setantae" <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <005f01c171bf$c4d06b10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <3BF9B12B.3D521A4D@nycap.rr.com> <0111191831240Q.60958@chip.wiegand.org> <20011119220243.A268@prayforwind.com> <009a01c171a9$4eedbee0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120023948.A92409@xor.obsecurity.org> <00df01c171b0$2a938be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120105642.GA75918@rhadamanth> <012d01c171b6$96b5adc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120114236.GA76431@rhadamanth>
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Ceri writes: > It's a window manager. > Try it, it's in the ports tree. Maybe some other time. I've had my fill of window managers for the time being. > Yes, FreeBSD is suited for server use, but I > find it perfectly adequate for my dekstop needs > as well. It may be, if your needs are very limited. I have more than 100 applications that I use on Windows, though, and there is just no way to get the equivalent on FreeBSD--nor do I have any motivation to try to do so. Why would I want a clone of Windows? I already _have_ Windows. > As an aside, although most of your arguments are > generally reasonable, I am astonished at the sweeping > comments that you make on this list when your > experience is clearly severely limited with FreeBSD > and (it seems) Unix-like systems in general. There's no magic in FreeBSD. It's an OS like any other, and I've seen lots of operating systems. Do not assume that a lack of knowledge of individual commands or structures in FreeBSD on my part is in any way an indication of general ignorance concering the function and design of operating systems. When you've seen one or two dispatchers, you've seen them all. The fundamental architecture of UNIX is very well know, even by people who don't use it. After all, it has been around for thirty years, and it's pretty straightforward. It is thus very easy and valid to make "sweeping comments" concerning UNIX, whether or not one happens to be one of the world's five greatest experts on the system. What surprises and amuses me is that so many people here do not realize this. Maybe UNIX is the only OS they've ever used. > I'd honestly suggest that you get a system that you > don't use in production and play with FreeBSD on it. > Yes, play. That's what I'm doing now with my FreeBSD machine. It has no production on it. However, I still try to run it like a production system, because that's the goal of using any operating system, over the long term. Production objectives impose constraints that force you to try harder; it's much more difficult to get a system in shape for production use than to just "play" with it endlessly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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