From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 20:31:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bluenugget.net (bsd.st [64.3.150.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3BF37B435 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:31:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geniusj@bluenugget.net) Received: from jason8bo2vxz5e (windows.box [64.3.150.191]) by bluenugget.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA8C13680; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <02f701c114ba$439511c0$bf960340@jason8bo2vxz5e> From: "Jason DiCioccio" To: "Mit Rowe" , "Sung Nae Cho" , References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:31:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2495.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2495.0000 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 Side note: OS X makes a great desktop if you're into BSD :-).. I currently have it on my G4 PowerBook.. And frankly, it's just plain sexy. Of course you will have to have Apple hardware :-) Cheers, -JD- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mit Rowe" To: "Sung Nae Cho" ; Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: RE: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! > > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message