Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 19:57:03 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: michael <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmokd7aWxvzhDJuBvQ4h0jwWf9h66F4FrS_D1JademmQUsg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140403014419.GA45830@regency.nsu.ru> References: <CAF6rxgkeBozvfV-L0%2BrFZ6fWRn0=Gi3BNq1kPL=-HTq0TD6MkQ@mail.gmail.com> <082a01cf4db9$240d3e90$6c27bbb0$@FreeBSD.org> <201404012240.s31MeIe4073267@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <20140403014419.GA45830@regency.nsu.ru>
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No wifi. Someone has to step up and "own" broadcom wifi or this will never change. -a On 2 April 2014 18:44, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> Hmmm. I'm a bit biased here, but I've been using FreeBSD on the >> desktop since, well, before it was called FreeBSD. It's still my >> primary platform for nearly everything (except photo management, which >> drove me to a Mac laptop so I could run Lightroom, and those few > > There are a few alternatives to Lightroom available in Ports Collection, > you might want to give them a try one day. > >> remaining Web sites that still bury all their content inside Flash). > > That's easy: Flash sites should be avoided. Most of them are using this > technology for showing stupid ads anyway, not for something useful. I > still recall a friend of mine actually *loved* that his iPhone does not > support Flash: it essentially enabled (ad|spam)-free Web browsing (alas, > those fuckers had caught up since then). > >> But let's be clear that different people have different requirements >> for a "desktop". My requirements are relatively simple: twm, xterm, >> XEmacs, vlc, LaTeX, xpdf, a Jabber client (psi), $VCS_OF_CHOICE, >> gnucash, and at least two Web browsers (I use Opera for most stuff and >> Firefox for "promiscuous-mode browsing"). [...] >> >> Other people have rather different requirements, and that's OK. But >> let's please not break the applications for which FreeBSD is very good >> now (and has actually gotten substantially better). > > Application availability does not, unfortunately, round up some perfect > desktop. I fear that Linux-centric development of hardware drivers, X.org > and all that shit is getting more and more divergent from FreeBSD, and > soon enough we'll get the situation I haven't seen for some 15 years: we > are again far behind on modern HW support. > > Power-saving techniques, most notably working sleep-resume and competitive > batter life are also our weak points at the moment. I'd like to replace > my old laptop (which runs 8.4-STABLE almost perfectly), but how far can I > go with, say, recent MacBook Pro? > > ./danfe > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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