From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 25 2:31:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.203.69.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B64337B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15PL0m-0006K6-00; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:31:24 +0100 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market! In-Reply-To: <200107250351.XAA05800@rapier.goldsword.com> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:31:24 +0100 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 > I understood that Darwin and most of not all of the hardware drivers > were going to OpenSourced? They are, but it's the stuff that NeXT put on top that makes OS X such a nice piece of work. I dont really see the point in running Darwin without and of the graphics and object orientated stuff as FreeBSD is much better as a core OS. > (Thinking of building my very own AMD-based machine around FreeBSD & > Darwin...) Rather than run Darwin go pick up a copy of OpenStep 4.2 for Intel. They are dirt cheap these days and absolutely *fly* on an AMD based machine. Even OminWeb is almost useable :-) Couple that with a FreeBSD server in the corner and you have a very nice setup indeed. I can heartily ecommend this as a very useable setup. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message