From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 11 15:18:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF3015680 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA13965; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA20106; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:18:16 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA18048; Tue, 11 May 99 15:18:14 PDT Message-Id: <3738ACA5.EBC965C7@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:18:13 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: desktop, was linus on BSD References: <199905111939.MAA15534@usr04.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > > That's my point about the difference between a workstation and a PC. All we > > really need to do to make FreeBSD a great workstation platform is don't > > break the IDE driver. Better installation for modems and printers would > > help, too, but those would help servers as well. There's just not that > > much difference. Who cares if we support every piece of ISA trash on the > > market, as long as we support several of the really common pieces well? > > A workstation with IDE hardware? > > Oh, you mean a PC... Or a Darwin. No, not the Apple stuff, the Sun stuff. Are you (un)confused now? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message