Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:31:17 -0700 From: "Jason DiCioccio" <geniusj@bluenugget.net> To: "Mit Rowe" <mitayai@dreaming.org>, "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: <02f701c114ba$439511c0$bf960340@jason8bo2vxz5e> References: <DBEMKGPNFGOGJHLMDNDJGEBHCHAA.mitayai@dreaming.org>
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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" <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: "Sung Nae Cho" <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu>; <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> 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
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