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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status)
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

>  --- Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> ha scritto: >
>
> ...
> >
> > I don't think this is what's holding back FreeBSD
> > (or Linux) at all.
> > It's an old logical fallacy: Windows has graphics
> > support in the
> > kernel; Windows is successful; so if we have
> > graphics support in the
> > kernel, we'll be successful.
> >
> We are not falling in that nonsense :). You might want
> to look at Jammes Simmon's comment (on the Linux
> kernel traffic) about how Linux has failed in the
> embedded and desktop markets.
>

Linux on Desktop has failed? On the contrary, Linux on Desktop has never
been doing better and is in a major upswing.

>
> cheers,
>
>     Pedro.
>


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