Charlie Kester wrote:
On Tue 05 Oct 2010 at 06:25:05 PDT Mark Blackman wrote:
There's also the whole train of thought that says FreeBSD isn't really
aimed at the desktop/laptop/notebook use model and any benefit in that
arena is entirely coincidental.
I've often seen that opinion expressed, but never on the FreeBSD website
or in any of its "official" materials.
On the contrary, most of the official literature presents it as an OS
for general-purpose computing, and not only for servers.
If I'm wrong about and there is an official statement somewhere that the
main intention is to provide an OS for servers, it would be good to
know.
It's derived from a server/workstation OS and I assume the number of
FreeBSD deployed servers wildly outnumbers the desktop/notebook
installations and the tag line is "The power to serve", so there's
a strong server bias.
However, lots of people of have put a lot of great work in to expand
the desktop/notebook options for FreeBSD, but it's a big mountain to climb.
- Mark
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