Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can
be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a
desktop. In short, it is an educational experience. While FreeBSD
can be coerced to
On 4/1/14, 1:46 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hi all
Hey it's not an apr 1 joke if it's true..
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On 4/1/2014 1:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can
be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a
desktop. In short, it is an educational
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the
desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be year of the Linux
desktop and start to rip out the pieces of the OS not needed for
server or embedded use.
Hi,
On 04/01/14 07:46, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can
be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a
desktop. In short, it is an educational
On 1 Apr 2014, at 08:11, Jordan Hubbard j...@mail.turbofuzz.com 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 whenever possible to achieve that. You need to
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:11:19PM +0500, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the
desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be year of the Linux
desktop and start
On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 22:46 -0700, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can
be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a
desktop. In short, it is
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can
be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a
desktop. In short, it is an educational experience. While FreeBSD
can be
-Original Message-
From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com]
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:47 PM
To: hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd-
advoc...@freebsd.org
Subject: Leaving the Desktop Market
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story
On Mon, March 31, 2014 10:46 pm, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can be a
worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop.
In short, it is
-Original Message-
From: Lars Engels [mailto:lars.eng...@0x20.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:41 AM
To: Jordan Hubbard
Cc: Eitan Adler; hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd-
advoc...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at
On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Sean Bruno sean...@yahoo-inc.com wrote:
Why even bother? Its over, just embrace the future and be like this
happy Mac user:
http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/happy_desktop_user.jpg
I have Macs at work (typing on one now), and a mac at home. I like them.
I
On Mon, March 31, 2014 10:46 pm, Eitan Adler wrote:
Hi all,
Some of you may have seen my posts entitled Story of a Laptop User
and Story of a Desktop User. For those of you who did not, it can be a
worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop.
In short, it is
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard j...@mail.turbofuzz.com wrote:
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the
desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be year of the Linux
desktop
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 07:52:13AM -0700, dte...@freebsd.org wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Lars Engels [mailto:lars.eng...@0x20.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:41 AM
To: Jordan Hubbard
Cc: Eitan Adler; hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd-
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Matt Olander m...@ixsystems.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard j...@mail.turbofuzz.com
wrote:
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the
Hi all,
I have been a member of the FreeBSD hackers mailing list for about a year.5
now and I must say that I was looking forward to this year's 4/1 email.
Last year, I didn't even realize that the discussion of promoting i386 as a
tier 1 architecture was a joke until someone blatantly mentioned
-Original Message-
From: owner-freebsd-advoc...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-advoc...@freebsd.org] On
Behalf Of Randi Harper
You know you opened a can of worms with that one. Because all the nerds are
going to step
up and say Well, I run FreeBSD on my desktop! It's totally
El día Tuesday, April 01, 2014 a las 07:43:02PM +0200, Lars Engels escribió:
That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the
desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be year of the
[snip]
I'm a happy FreeBSD desktop user since 4.7. There are some edges,
On 04/01/2014 07:46, dte...@freebsd.org wrote:
Eitan,
While I understand your frustration, VICOR is using FreeBSD as a Desktop since
FreeBSD 2.2. We don't use sound and we are fine relying on vesa.
While I understand that the things you listed are actual short-comings for
normal
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