Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[Etienne Robillard]

On 06/01/2012 11:59 AM, Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 05:03:26 -0700 , Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>> Dear All ,
>>
>> There is a thread
>>
>> "Why Are You Using FreeBSD ?"
>>
>>
>> I think another thread with the specified subject   '"Why Are You NOT Using
>> FreeBSD ?" may be useful :
>>
>>
>> If you are NOT using FreeBSD for any area or some areas , would you please
>> list those areas with most important first to least important last ?
>
> I use Mac desktops. X11 and I don't get along. I still live in a
> fullscreen green-on-black terminal, of course, and do all of my actual
> work in either the Mac's BSD userland or a FreeBSD machine over ssh.
>
> So, really, this is nothing to do with FreeBSD per se, and I will
> consider reevaluating FreeBSD as a desktop when something not X11 comes
> along (although I don't see that as incredibly likely).

You mean like a TV screen? :)

Clearly for me I prefer FreeBSD for server operations and Linux for 
desktop although I frequently choose FreeBSD for desktop computing
and in particular DVD playback with ffmpeg/mplayer.

Cheers,

Etienne

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