From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 17:11:13 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 B0E591065740 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:11:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34CC68FC14 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.magehandbook.com (www.archersrock.info [192.168.1.100]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16804D13 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:11:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 152.121.16.254 (SquirrelMail authenticated user daniel) by www.magehandbook.com with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:11:12 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110721161356.GI5129@think.gnix.co.uk> References: <375e5bcac1acd4b781ef97bd1718e689.squirrel@www.magehandbook.com> <20110721161356.GI5129@think.gnix.co.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:11:12 -0400 From: "Daniel Staal" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be 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: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:11:13 -0000 On Thu, July 21, 2011 12:13 pm, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Adding a variety of devices to a tablet still wouldn't make it an > attractive option for me. I can't imagine doing my CS degree course-work > on one of them, it would be a nightmare. I even found working on a laptop > frustrating given the length of study sessions sometimes. As I said elsewhere in that email, I don't expect everyone to do so. I just know several who have. As tablets and such get more powerful and the connection systems get better it will become a more appealing option for more and more users. But for a large number of non-technical users, I can see it being the most appealing option already. > Also, due to the nature of the course-work I absolutely could not work > with anything other than UNIX and so I have to select my hardware around > my choice of OS which of course is FreeBSD. Which nicely brings us back to where this thread started: What needs to happen to make sure FreeBSD stays relevant as computing moves to these devices? ;) (Or should FreeBSD try to be relevant to the end-user at all? Part of what makes this an appealing option is increased 'cloud computing', and FreeBSD has an obviously relevant place in that, as a high-performance and high-reliability server platform.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------