Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:32:41 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD Ready for the Desktop? Message-ID: <20030209033241.GC78614@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <200302031314.41731.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <200302031314.41731.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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Hello, Johnson David! On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:14:41PM -0800, you wrote: > There's a guest column by Samba team leader John Terpstra on DesktopLinux.com. > It talks about what is needed by Linux to win in the corporate environment. > > <http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3610565657.html>; > > I checked it out to see what FreeBSD needed to do to win over the same > consumers. Surprisingly enough, FreeBSD is already there. Ironically, reading > through John's list, it seems that those Linux distros that claim to be the > most "desktop ready" are those furthest from achieving that goal. > > This article is a great argument in favor of FreeBSD. It's not about pretty > installers and flashy desktops, it's about choice, stability, security, and > making the user's life easier. Anyway we should not forget about bells and whistles too. For example, maybe FreeBSD Foundation can find money to fund development of ports/sysutils/barry (which is 'bells-and-whistles' KDE frontend for ports/packages manipulations), and similar tool for GNOME? -- NEVE-RIPE, will build world for food Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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