Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:15:22 -0700 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not... Message-ID: <918389C2-7C93-11D9-B134-000D933E3CEC@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE6@mvaexch01.acuson.com> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641AE6@mvaexch01.acuson.com>
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On Feb 11, 2005, at 4:00 PM, Johnson David wrote: > From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr] >> >> Because FreeBSD is a server, not a desktop. > > Agree and disagree. While FreeBSD is well suited for the server, it's > also > well suited for the desktop. Anthony had the same misguided opinion in the Apache Users mailing list. > That doesn't mean that we should be stressing > the desktop to those shopping for servers, instead it means that we > shouldn't be telling those shopping for desktops to go use Linux > instead. > How many business will be running Linux on the desktop but FreeBSD on > the > server? None! But you will find lots of people with FreeBSD on the Server and OS X on the desktop! 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. Chad [1] and Windows 2000 :-( and Mac OS 8/9 and Rhapsody and the beta for OS X
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