From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 8 19:32:46 2003 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 30EEF37B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:32:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (external.osdn.org.ua [212.40.34.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F373C43F93 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 19:32:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h193WgM9082109; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:32:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h193Wfjr082108; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:32:41 +0200 (EET) Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:32:41 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Johnson David Cc: freebsd-advocacy Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD Ready for the Desktop? Message-ID: <20030209033241.GC78614@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <200302031314.41731.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302031314.41731.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 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. > > > > 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