From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 10:25:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3B3837B419 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5268 invoked by uid 100); 28 Nov 2001 18:25:30 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15365.11290.211107.464324@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:25:30 -0600 To: "Anthony Atkielski" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) In-Reply-To: <132932202@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anthony Atkielski types: > That isn't going to happen. Linux is a flavor of UNIX, and the architecture of > UNIX is incompatible with heavy desktop use You've said this before, but haven't done anything to demonstrate it. I've been making heavy desktop use of, and supporting users making heavy desktop use of, Unix since 1985. Nothing has happened during that time that in any way indicated that Unix is "incompatible with heavy desktopp use." Quite to the contrary, every time someone has asked me to work on Win 9x or Macs - through the mid 90s - they crashed regularly under my normal usage patterns. That convinced me that, if anything, those operating systems aren't suitable for "heave desktop use". In other words, I've got over 15 years of experience in direct contradiction to your statement. I'd like to hear what evidence you have to back it up. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message