Problems with V7.0

[Diane Bruce]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 04:10:21PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 13:06 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
> > On Tue, 06 May 2008 12:00:47 +0100
> > Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
...
>
> You should remember the 'main aim' of FreeBSD is to support services, so
> DVB-T, which became important in Linux because of the large number of
> desktop users asking/developing such features, would not be such a high
> priority in BSD.

This is becoming less and less true, looking at www.pcbsd.org
and www.desktopbsd.net as examples.

I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 as a desktop with the ULE scheduler and
PCBSD as a hamradio desktop. It's changing.

> Of course, the number one priority in FOSS is 'what do I want to work
> on', and if someone with enough desire and skill decides they do want to
> work on it, then it will be done.... otherwise it probably won't :)

And I see the work is being done. My focus (and Xride's focus; plus
the contributors to the ports tree) hav been on making hamradio
apps very viable and useful on FreeBSD.

http://www.freshports.org/hamradio
http://www.db.net/hamfreesbie

- 73 Diane VA3DB ;-)
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