On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM, doug <d...@fledge.watson.org> wrote:
> I wish someone with some FreeBSD weight would make this request, but I > think this thread got a little off topic. > Oh buddy... > > The main thrust of the FreeBSD project seems to be making the best server > OS possible. That I think they do that pretty well. I have long held that > to be viable long term in the server game you have to at least be credible > in the desktop game. I hope some of the desktop projects will bear fruit in > this area. I bought into FreeBSD as PC-BSD and am enjoying it greatly. It beats Windows, for me, and makes considerably more structural sense than the Linuxes I have experienced (Debian and, more recently, Ubuntu.) The boot configuration and directory structure is more comprehensible. If I were not too old and (more to be point) too obsolete technically I > would put my efforts where my thoughts lead me. As it is, I use FreeBSD as > a desktop because it requires me to get into areas just administering a > server farm would never take me. The upsie fpr me is that never crashes. > That it works okay on an 800MHz, 500MB old dell server does not hurt > either. The pain that comes with that is my choice. > I never had the skill and still don't. As users go I'm pretty knowledgeable, and in fact was once a Windows network desktop tech in a big hospital corporation, but as far as writing code and making a serious difference, nope, sorry, I never learned how. > > That said, FreeBSD has a giant disadvantage in the desktop world. In > trying to find if there will be any sort for my current laptop I don't know what your current laptop is, but PC-BSD is running fine on my Sony Vaio VPC-EC2TFX/W1, on my Asus eee, and it runs acceptably on my Toshiba Satellite U505-S2950, although it tend to forget the screen size on that one and need to be reminded from time to time. I came across a comment from Robert Noland saying that Xorg is becoming > more and more Linux centric. That is a problem the FreeBSD project can not > overcome. Sure it can, the same way Linux got where it is today - get people's interest. I think PC-BSD should help. Or, some FreeBSD project people can contribute to the Xorg project as well... it's not over, we're just where we are. > That along with the way Intel does its video drivers makes supporting new > stuff non trivial if not daunting. > And that, alas, is beyond my ability to even address. Jeff > > ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscr...@freebsd.org <freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org>" > _______________________________________________ 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"
