From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 17 13:07:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D806106564A for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:07:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cbergstrom@pathscale.com) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECF08FC08 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg11 with SMTP id 11so3112418pvg.13 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.29.138 with SMTP id k10mr6118023pbh.60.1310908039504; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (ppp-58-8-249-12.revip2.asianet.co.th [58.8.249.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d1sm1874348pbj.88.2011.07.17.06.07.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E22DFE9.7050007@pathscale.com> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:13:13 +0700 From: =?UTF-8?B?IkMuIEJlcmdzdHLDtm0i?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20101031 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: FreeBSD References: <20110717071059.25971662@scorpio> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:07:20 -0000 On 07/17/11 07:24 PM, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > However, what worries me is how influential he is in some open source > projects. He suggested that Gnome should be Linux specific because > trying to keep compatibility with other UNIX systems (BSD for example) > holds them from going further in the development. I wouldn't be happy > if the gnome developers followed his advice. 1) Why care about *BSD as a desktop? 2) Why care about *BSD as a workstation? (Which I see as a next level in stability/usability beyond a toy "desktop") In the specific case about Gnome - really if you care so much then you can submit patches and contribute. If nobody is willing to do the work (scratch the itch) then ultimately it really doesn't matter. Oh this is flamebait, but I hope gnome does do this.. Maybe then more people would forget about it and focus on making KDE better ;)