Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 02:53:36 -0600 From: Jason Dusek <jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu> To: "Newbies@BSD" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tastes Like Chicken Message-ID: <40614C90.7020906@cs.uiowa.edu> In-Reply-To: <08CC14F8-7D61-11D8-99B6-000A95E8B36A@verizon.net> References: <406105FF.50605@cs.uiowa.edu> <08CC14F8-7D61-11D8-99B6-000A95E8B36A@verizon.net>
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Juan Pablo Gutierrez wrote: > On Mar 23, 2004, at 7:52 PM, Jason Dusek wrote: > >> I'll guess I'll add to the Hoopla. I'm a former Mac user, who was >> always deeply curious about the workings of his machine. I have to >> say that I have yet to find in any other operating system the unique >> combination of instructional challenges and raw functionality that is >> offered by FreeBSD! I am now evangelizing FreeBSD to all my friends >> - and I'm pushing it for a local non-profit organization as the >> solution to their new found need for business work stations. I >> really look forward to the day when FreeBSD with GNOME or KDE (or >> perhaps some weird interhack of the two of them) is a common desktop >> environment. >> >> -- >> ~*~* Jason > > > > Hi Jason, > > My experience is the exact opposite of yours: I've gone from FreeBSD > to Mac (though I tinker on any OS I find, Linux, Windows, Menuet, > etc). I'm curious if you've played with OpenDarwin at all. I've been > meaning to install it, but haven't had the time, and the newest > version runs on both PPC and x86. Anyway, I'm curious to see how OS X > evolves. As it is now, running X11 on it is pretty weird. Where is > XF86Config? or xf86config for that matter? The operating system is > still very new and Macs are new to me, so I expect to figure things > out eventually. BTW, what's with this GNOME and KDE stuff? Fluxbox > forever! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I haven't touched OpenDarwin. I really don't think that it's added all that much to the open source community - it's basically just a bunch of nice additions to FreeBSD. None of the really useful Mac like things - like Aqua - are open. And using the Mach kernel is hardly Apple's idea. I think that Apple is going to have to make a decision, and I hope they make the right decision - I think they have to decide to become an open source hardware developer. Honestly I don't think this will cost them a penny - their hardware's good enough to move units for all kinds of computationally intensive applications, and a lot of their market (graphic design studios and so forth) would just buy a packaged distro from them anyway. In the meantime though, a free Mac is just not in the cards. So I've got GNOME instead. Though I bet you sawfish is a whole new experience... -- ~*~* Jason
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