Re: FreeBSD ROCKs! (was Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!)

2001-07-25 Thread j mckitrick
The convincer for me was Wes Peters' 'Daemon's Advocate' article. He even personally responded to some of my questions. He pointed out that many of the same factors that make a good server, make a good workstation. The article was May 99, BTW. Anyway, that convinced me to give it a try, and

Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!

2001-07-25 Thread j mckitrick
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:48:15PM -0700, Lamont Granquist wrote: | | On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Mit Rowe wrote: | > I wouldn't use FreeBSD for a desktop if my life depended on it. | | I've been using FreeBSD as desktops, both at home and on my work laptop, I've been running it on my laptop since 3.2

Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!

2001-07-25 Thread Jordan Hubbard
avior and so far, it's not meeting even the most minimum standards we have here. Again, this is your second and last warning in compliance with the mailing list charters. - Jordan From: Sung Nae Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only m

Re: FreeBSD needs to awake and come out of SERVER only market!

2001-07-25 Thread Fred Gilham
Kai Torak writes: > FreeBSD works great as a desktop O/S!? Sure you have to tweek and > tune it to be a good server or a good desktop, but who actualy > expects an O/S to do exactly what you want "out of the box" without > having to tweek it for that job? For desktop we have all these usb > thi