From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 7:44:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172C337B640 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 07:44:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA53098; Thu, 4 May 2000 09:43:48 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:43:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: low cost consultant (?) In-Reply-To: <20000504.14382200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, I have heard the argument that FreeBSD is a developers OS and that sound and multimedia are only secondary concerns, but that does not mean users should suffer. In fact, the FreeBSD project should embrace users and help them in as many ways as possible in hopes that the user base will grow. Why does Sun officially support a JDK for Linux and not FreeBSD? It is pure numbers. If there were more people using FreeBSD as a user machine and as a development machine Sun and other companies would take notice and start supporting FreeBSD. It comes back to help the developers. It is inevitable that FreeBSD will become popular along with Linux because it is a solid system. It uses advanced technology to do things other systems cannot, but while it does great things as a server, it can also do the simple things like autodetect video and audio so that setup is much easier. It is so easy to set up most things in FreeBSD but video and audio are still difficult. Installing most of the recent Linux distros allows the video and audio to be configured automatically. The FreeBSD project does not have to create userland applications beyond getting the multimedia systems working because projects like Gnome and KDE are doing really well in that regard. It would be nice if FreeBSD/BSDi just met them halfway. (It is regretful these things are becoming so commercial) And if FreeBSD does not tackle these user concerns seriously, what is going to stop someone from using FreeBSD and go to Darwin or MacOS X which is based on FreeBSD 3.2 but yet will support rich multimedia? What happens when FreeBSD loses it's user base instead of growing it? FreeBSD needs users to stay strong. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. -- Earl Wilson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message