From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 11:17:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE2A16A4CE for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:17:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB4C43D2F for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:17:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com ([157.226.230.209]:2036) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AyFOD-0005hO-3r; Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:17:13 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <15HGJ040>; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:08:50 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-107.acuson.com ([157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id 15H195Q8; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:07:34 -0800 From: Johnson David To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Organization: Siemens Medical Systems Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:15:17 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <4043F3A2.7030407@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4043F3A2.7030407@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403021115.17746.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AyFOD-0005hO-3r*7AMUKNZw4BQ* Subject: Re: FreeBSD Most wanted X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:17:39 -0000 On Monday 01 March 2004 06:38 pm, Eric Anderson wrote: > Just for grins, lets build a list of "features" that we feel FreeBSD > needs in order to be on track with the other guys. (this is spawned > from the recent grog thread) I'm going to harp a bit on the "desktop". From my perspective, the desktop drives the rest of the market. When Windows is on the desktop of every corporate executive then you're going to find Windows in every other niche as well. It's not because these decision makers think Windows is better, it's just that Windows is the ONLY thing that they know. So I think that better desktop support in FreeBSD is essential. This doesn't mean dumbing down the system. I could list a bunch of features here, but I think the most important thing is to simply recognize that the desktop is a valid place to put FreeBSD. David p.s. If the word "desktop" makes you uncomfortable, think "workstation" instead.