Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:20:46 -0700 From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Assuming We Want FreeBSD to Grow: Who Is It For? Message-ID: <8cb27cbf0502152220604f0693@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1728728975.20050216034021@wanadoo.fr> References: <42125E71.30804@tbc.net> <200502151655.43509.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <42129CCB.5030203@makeworld.com> <1728728975.20050216034021@wanadoo.fr>
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 03:40:21 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Chris writes: > > > To me? They are users that are: > > > > 1. Fed up with the MS upgrades > > 2. Fed up with paying too much for software (apps and OS) > > 3. Looking for a viable alternative to the MS empire > > 4. NOT your average Windows user. > > All the wrong people, generally. FreeBSD is not a solution for people > who hate Microsoft. It is not a viable alternative to MS desktop > software by any stretch of the imagination, except for a handful of FreeBSD is a viable desktop. Gnumeric is in some ways a much better Excel than Excel. For word processors there is TextMaker and or StarOffice. I am well aware of Abiword and Kword, but the latter come with good commercial fonts. MySQL also provides MySQLCC, a gui frontend to MySQL. Evolution, Kmail, or Thunderbird will do fine as MUA's. Arguably Firefox, Epiphany or Konqueror are better than IE. Those items cover about 90% of desktop use. In addition FreeBSD ports comes with a lot of useful software such as Scilab, Gperiodic, Qcad, TGIF, Mplayer, SANE .... Your Microsoft Xp comes with none of that stuff.
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