From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Nov 22 15:40:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38FA37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:40:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBF443EA9 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 15:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5C24451915; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:10:47 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:10:47 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jamie Jones Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <20021122234047.GB60785@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021121161453.GA69019_submonkey.net@ns.sol.net> <008501c2917a$ac643080$0a00000a_atkielski.com@ns.sol.net> <200211221502.gAMF2a6a089963@catflap.bishopston.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211221502.gAMF2a6a089963@catflap.bishopston.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 22 November 2002 at 15:02:36 +0000, Jamie Jones wrote: > On 21 Nov 2002 16:26:08 +0000, > anthony@freebie.atkielski.com > wrote in newsgroup sol.lists.freebsd.advocacy: > >> Conversely, though, converting from Windows to UNIX on the desktop is just >> as absurd as doing the opposite on the server, and the fact that many people >> try it anyway just proves that there are irrational and fanatical people on >> both sides of the fence. > > You were doing well up until then. > For some it may not be suitable, but I'm currently sitting here with over 50 > windows open on a FreeBSD X desktop, and its stable, and fast. Agreed 100%. I've had to use Microsoft from time to time, but for my purposes it's a toy compared to FreeBSD. It would take me several times as long to get things done if I had to use Microsoft. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message