Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:55:51 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) Message-ID: <20030206155440.M43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <20030206010919.90459.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > --- Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> ha scritto: > > > ... > > he is just plain wrong. In fact, looking into the > > very issue of 'linux on > > desktop' on kernel traffic is stupid. The overlap > > between people who have > > a clue about linux kernel and linux desktop is very > > small. > > > And that's part of the problem. Everyone kept thinking > that making UNIX a good desktop was a matter of having > Star Office and Wordperfect. No clue there :(. > True - but you don't want to try it without having an office suite either, or your target audience is going to be pitifully small. But its stillonly a relatively small part of what you need to have a desktop. > > Oh - and I actually work for a company that does > > unix on desktop & is > > going to release a linux desktop. > > > > Good luck.. honest! It's a tough market. > Thanx 8-) I know - but being a large company helps a bit though. Btw,its interesting there is nobody putting together a coherent well-designed BSD based desktop as a single package. While there is most probably no money in this, it would be an interesting excerice/project. > Pedro. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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