On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:59:03PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:24:41PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Vivek Khera wrote: > > VK> My list of software is purely server stuff; I > > VK> don't use any FreeBSD desktops. > > > > It seems to be the key point here. > > > > I'm thinking about giving a try for the following scheme for my development > > desktop at work: > > > > amd64 machine with servers' ports built inside (postgresql-server, > > apache, etc) with i386 jail with desktop applications (xorg, > > firefox/nspluginwrappers, MUA, you name it...) > > > > ENOTIME so far... > > Utility is definitely a personal variable. I run a FreeBSD-6-stable > workstation at AMD64 and am more or less happy with it,
My workstation runs amd64 7.0-BETA2. I'm very happy with it. > but I also have > a MacOS laptop, which I can fall back to for anything that falls out of > the FreeBSD-amd64 capability bucket, like watching the google > Android videos on youtube, There's youtube-dl in ports for downloading youtube videos. You can them watch them with your favorite media player. > Certainly xorg, firefox (and epiphany, which I prefer) and MUA > (thunderbird, evolution, mutt, claws-mail(my pref.)) all work > happily in amd64 mode. The only desktop related things that one hears a lot about are the Flash plugin, and the NVidia binary driver. For me those are things that I can happily live without. I certainly don't miss the annoying Flash ads on the Web! Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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