From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 01:14:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC8116A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:14:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC37843D2F for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch01.acuson.com ([157.226.230.208]:2397) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D0Uag-0005I2-5B; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:59:54 -0800 Received: by mvaexch01.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <17HX389H>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:57:32 -0800 Message-ID: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE9@mvaexch01.acuson.com> From: Johnson David To: "'Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC'" Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:38:19 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 01:14:17 -0000 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [mailto:chad@shire.net] > > Not to say that you cannot run a FreeBSD desktop. And any efforts to > make that easier are applauded. I used to run Linux on the desktop[1] > and FreeBSD on the server. Setting up Linux as a desktop at the time > (1990-2000 timeframe) was so much easier. I don't know about now, but > with Linux (SuSE is what I used back then) it was as easy as setting up > Windows. The suitability of a system for the desktop has only a little to do with installation and setup. If you're a newbie sitting at home without an administrator, then by all means stick with Mac OSX. But the desktop market is far bigger than the newbie sitting at home. You also have to consider the business desktop where you have sysadmins to do the installation and setup. If you can train an admin to configure X.org (which ain't that hard), then there's no reason you can't have FreeBSD and KDE/GNOME/WhateverDE on the business desktop. Other than mindshare, that is. David