Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 18:50:13 -0400 From: "Mit Rowe" <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: "Sung Nae Cho" <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Message-ID: <DBEMKGPNFGOGJHLMDNDJGEBHCHAA.mitayai@dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107241828050.18993-100000@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
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I'm a Systems and Network administrator, not a Office Administrator, I don't eat snickers bars (bad for the teeth), and since there's no room in my server room for me to sit comfortably i have a real desk in a real office. I wouldn't use FreeBSD for a desktop if my life depended on it. It's not what is was designed for, and quite frankly would likely take away from the reasons it *was* designed for: a nice, solid, dependable and reliable networked operating system. For that, I use nothing but. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sung Nae Cho > Sent: July 24, 2001 18:41 PM > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! > > > Hi, > > This is regarding that recent performance issue (Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, > Solaris). I don't care what you (people who are so stuck up with > stability) think, I use FreeBSD as a desktop and I need performance! I > have "async" otpion turned on in my /etc/fstab, I'm glad the FreeBSD by > default enables the write cache for my hard disks. Come on, wake up! > FreeBSD is no longer for some dorky server administrator who does nothing > but chewing on snickers bar sitting in corner of some room full of racks > and HDD's. And, I bet most people use FreeBSD for desktop use, not as > server use! I've shut down the computer by plugging the power plug out > just because I was upset or not in the moeed and all it cost me was some > extra time booting due to file system check. I've never had any of my > files, emails or anything like that being lost due to cold shutting my > computer. I'm sick of this server administrators always crying for > stability. If FreeBSD won't take use of all the capabilities offered in > todays hard drives, I won't be using it! I'll switch right over to Linux. > Come on, desktop is the king and FreeBSD should focus itself evolving in > desktop market. If you gonna whine about stability, go back to FreeBSD > 2.x, 3.x. For me, FreeBSD 4.x, 5.x should be more desktop oriented, and > desktops need performance!!!!! > > > Sung N. Cho > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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