Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:19 +0000 From: Peter Harrison <peter.piggybox@virgin.net> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors Message-ID: <20081211210319.GA1080@laptop.piggybox> In-Reply-To: <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> 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>
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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"
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