From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 7 06:23:59 2003 Return-Path: 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 A1BF237B40D for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 06:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97743F3F for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 06:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (electron.centtech.com [204.177.173.173]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h37DNo56006387; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:23:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3E916DC3.4090407@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 07:23:31 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" References: <20030406172035.GA45332@netpublishing.com> <3E91360F.1090702@401.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: advocacy@freebsd.org cc: "Gregory A. Gilliss" Subject: Re: Brilliant and very useful for FreeBSD, IMHO X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:23:59 -0000 Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: [..snip..] > I love FreeBSD, but not even I would get the idea to run it as a > desktop. It's not good at it, and if someone asks for my opinion, I hope > it never will be. > Even Microsoft have realised that it takes a different os to run a > server then a desktop. They have a plethora of different editions, like > XP Home Edition and W2K Advanced Server. As long as FreeBSD excels on > servers, chances are it will not make a perfect desktop. > I say we have enough desktop os's, lets keep FreeBSD kicking ass on the > servers. Well, I'm just about 180 degrees different on the desktop OS theory as you are. I've been using FreeBSD as my desktop OS for several years now. I run it on my notebook (which I am using now), and my desktop. Both are my "workstations" - my desktop rarely gets rebooted, and of course my notebook is like my wallet, with me everywhere I go. It's actually the finest desktop OS I have ever used. Now, I do have XP installed on my notebook, but I rarely boot into it. In fact, I only do so to test Windows things for my users. I'm not a big fan of "super mario windows" looking GUI's (like the default XP setup - eek!), but I can appreciate a decent UI when I see one. Windows isn't there yet. Now, I'm a KISS (keep it simple, stupid) believer, so I run fluxbox. It's so darn easy to config, and so simple to use. Just for informations sake, I taught my wife to use FreeBSD as her desktop OS in about 15 minutes. She got used to fluxbox and used it like she has known it for years. Also, recently I showed a unix "newbie" FreeBSD, and let him play with is and several Linux os's, and he finally decided on FreeBSD because (in his words) "it's just so simple and easy to get things done". Just my $0.02. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------