From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 15:51:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6FFA37B406 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:51:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from presence@churchofinformationwarfare.org) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289796660; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:51:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:51:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Rev. K Kanno" X-Sender: presence@shell-2.enteract.com To: Sung Nae Cho Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sung Nae Cho wrote: I disagree. I'd like to know there is always a stable platform to run server duties on for the intel platform. If I want a pretty desktop with 3 trillion apps, I will run windows. This is just me, but I'm really sick of commenting out all the trash for dekstops from my kernel config files. I don't give a damn about human interface devices, USB and nonsense like that. Maybe there could be two versions of FreeBSD. A "stripped down" version for servers and maybe some port or installation option that just adds the toys and nonsense desktop people seem to want for a workstation. Just an opinion. KEN > 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 > ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== The Exploding Fruit Challenge! Rev. K. Kanno www.energybeam.com blowup-fruit@energybeam.com ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message