Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:50:35 -0800 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011129135035.B90325@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <022901c178ab$8b12cb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:57:49AM %2B0100 References: <004801c17872$98e47b40$6600000a@ach.domain><017f01c1788c$8cb71d90$0a00000a@atkielski.com><15365.52562.394957.602907@guru.mired.org><01fe01c178a1$001d1be0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <15365.58639.39658.89837@guru.mired.org> <022901c178ab$8b12cb50$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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> If they can develop an OS for thousands of dollars, why not follow it through to > completion, anyway? In case you didn't notice, you can develop one for zero dollars. > > ... it was suitable for some peoples desktop, but > > it wasn't suitable for much else. It wasn't > > multi-user, and the hardware didn't scale beyond > > four processors. > > Sounds just like a Mac. Sounds more like windows to me. I have a mac, and any number of users can ssh into it and use it at the same time. That doesn't work so well with windows. If it does work at all, it certainly doesn't without expensive third-party packages. > > That means Unix is an inferior processor for > > those applications, not that it's an inferior > > desktop. > > Either way, it pretty much excludes UNIX. Anthony Atkielski, this is procmail; procmail, this is Anthony Atkielski. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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