Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:16:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, Gilbert Gong <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>, Jeremiah Gowdy <jeremiah@sherline.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Message-ID: <XFMail.011220121613.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <01d701c1898c$00b28210$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On 20-Dec-01 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Jeremiah writes: > >> The minute kernel developers start concentrating >> on coding for desktop applications, and any large >> share of their time is spent on the desktop aspect, >> I will know it is time to move to another *BSD. > > I fully agree. This is one of my concerns for FreeBSD. I expect Linux to > move in that direction, but since it is such a crude operating system to > begin with, I don't see that as much of a loss. FreeBSD, on the other hand, > is a fine server operating system, and compromising its strengths just to > make it look better on the desktop would be a step in the wrong direction. > > Microsoft made this same mistake with its transition from NT 3.x to NT 4.x, > in which it compromised stability and security on the NT platform in order > to more intimately integrate the GUI into the kernel. While that helped NT > on the desktop (which was presumably the goal), it hurt NT as a server. FreeBSD is never going to integrate a GUI into its kernel. That should just be phenomenally stupid. :) However, it can provide optimizations to make the OS better support desktop software. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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