Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-09-17 Thread KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko
Dear lists, I'm sorry for 2L8 reply though,I have transrated this thread into japanese in [1]. I wonder if every mail transrated correctly so please check it if you understand japanese especially by japanese lists. BTW ML mails should be obeyed by FreeBSD Copyright but it's derivative work would b

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I'm working on adding some more power management logging support to freebsd-head so we can start to get a better grip on sleep/wakeup occurances. That should help us start to figure out where the power consumption is going. But on that EEEPC 900, just make sure you've set dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, April 01, 2014 a las 08:38:28AM +0100, David Chisnall escribió: > > Just a small note here: Improving power management is something that the Core > Team and the Foundation have jointly identified as an important goal, in > particular for mobile / embedded scenarios. We're curre

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-04 Thread Joe Nosay
es or at least a > fast > compatibility layer to play the big ones out there now. > > Bottom line, make it fun and make it compatible. The lower price will > attract plenty of customers. As long as they allow us die hards to install > a text only system we're good :-) > &g

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Benesch
n Behalf Of Stephen Perry Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 10:18 AM To: 'Allen' Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Leaving the Desktop Market > > > There is no such thing as a desktop market for *BSD or Linux. > > > There n

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-04 Thread Stephen Perry
> > > There is no such thing as a desktop market for *BSD or Linux. There > > > never has been and there never will be. > > Oh come on now, it depends on a couple of things, and I wouldn't go that far. > I've got a lot of family members that know next to nothing about computers, > and I got tired

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-04 Thread Allen
Hi, before I go any farther, I just want to point out that I currently can only really send emails from my phone because Comcast are jerks. So I'm Hoping that basically this email will be displayed properly. I'm using AquaMail, which seems to work pretty well but I haven't been active on these

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

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

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > >> This is like trying to predict automobile technology and dominant >> car-makers by 1905. There's always room for competition. Take a look >> at what's happening right now in the auto-in

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread O. Hartmann
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:10:22 -0700 Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > No, mutt, with vim as mail composer. :) > > > > +1 > > > > matthias > > > > (FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and sending this from an EeePC 900, > > netbook, UMTS connected, KDE4 desktop, sound, webcam, vim, mutt, > >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > This is like trying to predict automobile technology and dominant > car-makers by 1905. There's always room for competition. Take a look > at what's happening right now in the auto-industry. Tesla came out of > nowhere 125 years after the invent

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > I have Macs at work (typing on one now), and a mac at home. I like them. > [ … ] > It’s just like being back in the 80s, when Unix had a desktop market, only > much, much faster. Worry not, there’s a product just for you now! http://www.macs

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Person, Roderick wrote: > Why aren't all the nerds and small businesses out there a market? Too few of you to justify the capital outlay. Now, if we were talking about a $1500 watch that was very nerdy and appealed to the inner James Bond in lots of non-nerds, t

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:22:32AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 1 Apr 2014, at 23:10, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting > > my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is > > a bit ugly,but I only

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Apr 2014, at 23:10, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting > my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is > a bit ugly,but I only had to check the available PINs (ugly, ugly) and set > up stuff once. It j

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Sinatra
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 >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
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

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Tue, April 1, 2014 11:59 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > > >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard >> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler >>> wrote: >>> >>> That is why on this date I propose that w

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
> -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!

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Brian Kim
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 i

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard > wrote: > > > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > >> That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the > >> desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Lars Engels
sd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd- > > advoc...@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:11:19PM +0500, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > > >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler 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

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
> > 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.

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Person, Roderick
-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

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Sean Bruno 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 recently installed Fr

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Randi Harper
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > There is no such thing as a desktop market for *BSD or Linux. There never > has been and there never will be. Oh, god. I'm going to wake up for this mailing list just to say this: You know you opened a can of worms with that one. Beca

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread dteske
> -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 Marke

Fwd: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Stefan Wendler
Sorry, should have replied to everybody ;) Cheers -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market Date: Tuesday 01 April 2014, 17:34:28 From: Stefan Wendler To: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org Hi, On Monday 31 March 2014 22:46:45 Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
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 shor

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread dteske
> -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 entitle

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
> 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 > c

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Sean Bruno
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 sho

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:11:19PM +0500, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler 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

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread David Chisnall
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 whenever possible to achieve that. You need to optimize > all of the hot-

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
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 educatio

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler 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. > > Some of y

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-03-31 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
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

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/1/14, 1:46 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi all Hey it's not an apr 1 joke if it's true.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr.