Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:10:22PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > FreeBSD desktop since 3.3 (makes me a newbie!) I really dislike pulseaudio > and have managed to live without it. Firefox works fine without it. > Unfortunately they dropped OSS support a while go, so I now must use alsa, > but it wor

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 08:38:28AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 1 Apr 2014, at 08:11, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 1. Power. As you point out, being truly power efficient is a complete > > top-to-bottom engineering effort and it takes a lot more than just trying > > to idle the processor whenev