From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 16:55:27 2005 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 9D6BF16A536 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:55:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6129943D45 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:55:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cmc3list-bsd@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.102?) (cmc2goat@swbell.net@64.123.15.185 with plain) by smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 2005 16:55:27 -0000 Message-ID: <420E3577.6080106@yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:57:27 -0600 From: Chris Conn User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org References: <13116927.20050212032039@wanadoo.fr> <1327176360.20050212104749@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <1327176360.20050212104749@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... 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: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:55:27 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I agree. Build on strengths, not weaknesses. The Linux community is > making the mistake of promoting Linux in exactly the domain where it is > most likely to be a permanent failure. FreeBSD should not make that > same mistake. In the world I work in (AIX Technical Support) we use Windows as a desktop and most of our customers do too, of course our AIX boxes are the servers. We all connect with some kind of PC emulator, usually Exceed and lately VNC is gaining popularity. CDE is the official desktop for AIX but it's old. They're adding support for GNOME and KDE, not sure how popular they will be. At home I have a Slackware Linux box and a FreeBSD box and run Window Maker as a desktop on both of them and they work great (these are hobby and educational boxes for me) and the only time I wish I could have some of the benefits of Windows is when I want to watch Apple Movie Trailers, can only watch them on Windows. Otherwise FreeBSD does everything I want a desktop to do (same with Slackware). I use FreeBSD more often because it's my standalone box and it's faster. I do agree that Linux is competing in the wrong area, why try to compete in the desktop area when the strength of Unix (and Linux) is in the server area? But hey that's the direction they've chosen, more cool utilities for us :-). -- Chris Conn http://www.whee.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-users Austin, Texas, USA