Re: SPAM: Score 3.3: Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC (chad_at_shire.net)
Date: 02/12/05

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    Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:30:49 -0700
To: Robert Marella <hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com>

    On Feb 11, 2005, at 8:32 PM, Robert Marella wrote:

    > On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 03:14 +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
    >> Johnson David wrote:
    >>
    >>> Currently Windows rules the desktop world, even for diehard Unix
    >>> shops. But
    >>> that will not last forever. We need to start thinking about the
    >>> desktop
    >>> today. We need to stop the official discouragement of desktop
    >>> FreeBSD.
    >>
    >> MacOS X is the "Desktop BSD". It is available today, and it works
    >> better than anything else at being a "desktop".
    >
    > Does it work on my intel hardware?

    Not in public it doesn't. That is irrelevant to the discussion.
    FreeBSD does not work on my PPC HW either.

    Chad

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