From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 2:28: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beorn.wizrealm.com (beorn.wizrealm.com [208.153.236.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B37C14D24 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 02:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfisher@twrol.com) Received: from twrol.com (nebula.twrol.com [208.153.236.250]) by beorn.wizrealm.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA29295; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 03:35:15 GMT Message-ID: <3754F8F9.AE539AE@twrol.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 03:27:21 -0600 From: Stephen Fisher X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Lewis Cc: kalmadg@banet.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bye-bye Windows References: <9906020808.AA16661@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry.. ...FreeBSD runs great on desktops as well -- I run it on such. It just seems that things like GNOME, WordPerfect, etc. are written mainly for Linux, at least initially. Steve Gregory Lewis wrote: > > Stephen Fisher wrote: > > > > The main difference I see is that Linux is for desktops. FreeBSD is for > > servers/high performance workstations, etc. Desktops are much more > > popular so Linux seems to be. > > I'm interested in why you believe Linux is for desktops and FreeBSD isn't. > I don't know of many (any?) desktop applications that will run on Linux and > not FreeBSD. I don't wish to be rude, but by making such a statement you > perpetuate a myth which is causing people to install Linux instead of > FreeBSD on their home machines when there is no need to. Equally, to be > fair to the Linux camp, its wrong to say that Linux isn't for servers. > Both are well written, powerful, modern Unix-like operating systems -- > which you use for any given application is pretty much a matter of taste. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message