Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:42:24 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jeremiah@sherline.com> Cc: "Gilbert Gong" <ggong@cal.alumni.berkeley.edu>, <advocacy@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Microsoft Advocacy? Message-ID: <024601c1899f$365d63e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <XFMail.011220131528.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John writes: > I think desktop OS is misnomer. UI and OS are > two separate things, regardless of how much MS > ties the two together. That is true in a strict sense, but today, no ordinary computer user would tolerate a desktop without a GUI. If someone really wants a CLI-based desktop, then UNIX suddenly becomes the OS of choice, as Windows can't even begin to support that sort of environment, whereas UNIX was born for it. It has also occurred to me that blind users might find UNIX to be a very friendly OS. They don't really need or want a GUI, and everything that UNIX can do can usually be done with plain text. > And you have said that you think FreeBSD is not > a viable desktop for specific circumstances. > That is equivalent to it not being valid for > _any_ circumstance. According to what logic? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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