From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 6 6:55:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC63137B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:55:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99C1943F85 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 06:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h16EtrOs021857; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:55:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h16Etp3j021854; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:55:52 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:55:51 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GGI (was: Project Status) In-Reply-To: <20030206010919.90459.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030206155440.M43637-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > --- Narvi ha scritto: > > > ... > > he is just plain wrong. In fact, looking into the > > very issue of 'linux on > > desktop' on kernel traffic is stupid. The overlap > > between people who have > > a clue about linux kernel and linux desktop is very > > small. > > > And that's part of the problem. Everyone kept thinking > that making UNIX a good desktop was a matter of having > Star Office and Wordperfect. No clue there :(. > True - but you don't want to try it without having an office suite either, or your target audience is going to be pitifully small. But its stillonly a relatively small part of what you need to have a desktop. > > Oh - and I actually work for a company that does > > unix on desktop & is > > going to release a linux desktop. > > > > Good luck.. honest! It's a tough market. > Thanx 8-) I know - but being a large company helps a bit though. Btw,its interesting there is nobody putting together a coherent well-designed BSD based desktop as a single package. While there is most probably no money in this, it would be an interesting excerice/project. > Pedro. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message