Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:31:27 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> Cc: <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Gilbert Gong" <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Message-ID: <023101c1899d$ae7bbc20$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <XFMail.011220121611.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John writes: > Well, 2 of them work for Apple, so they > would probably go with OS X. Uh-oh. Do they have an employment contract with Apple that makes any code they write anywhere property of Apple, or otherwise similarly endangers any work they might do on FreeBSD? > How about the specific environment of working > on software that runs on FreeBSD whether it be > the kernel, userland tools, or KDE. In that specific and unusual situation, the best desktop is usually the target OS for the development, unless you have multiple machines. > This includes adding tweaks for uniprocessor > boxes, for example. What sort of "tweaks"? > In fact, the BSD scheduler actually prefers > interactive user interface processes to > background CPU-intensive "server" processes. So much for server performance, eh? How does it distinguish between the two? > The tricky bit here is Windows ties its OS and > desktop environment together a bit tightly so > that it can avoid competition ... That is done to improve desktop performance, not to avoid competition. Competition is not a problem for Windows. > If someone ported KDE to Windows/DOS, which > OS would you recommend as the best desktop= > friendly OS to run it on? Some flavor of UNIX. > If someone ported the Windows UI to FreeBSD, > which UI would you then recommend to a FreeBSD > user? Some flavor of Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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