On Thu, July 21, 2011 12:13 pm, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Adding a variety of devices to a tablet still wouldn't make it an > attractive option for me. I can't imagine doing my CS degree course-work > on one of them, it would be a nightmare. I even found working on a laptop > frustrating given the length of study sessions sometimes.
As I said elsewhere in that email, I don't expect everyone to do so. I just know several who have. As tablets and such get more powerful and the connection systems get better it will become a more appealing option for more and more users. But for a large number of non-technical users, I can see it being the most appealing option already. > Also, due to the nature of the course-work I absolutely could not work > with anything other than UNIX and so I have to select my hardware around > my choice of OS which of course is FreeBSD. Which nicely brings us back to where this thread started: What needs to happen to make sure FreeBSD stays relevant as computing moves to these devices? ;) (Or should FreeBSD try to be relevant to the end-user at all? Part of what makes this an appealing option is increased 'cloud computing', and FreeBSD has an obviously relevant place in that, as a high-performance and high-reliability server platform.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
