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Old 16th June 2008
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Originally Posted by scottro View Post
Yes, me too. Did you look at that thread about doing su, it's a DesktopBSD thing and I mentioned how we have an important DesktopBSD fellow here.

(All the above was to Oliver)
I have been very vocal on that matter, but I don't see the relevance of FreeBSD on the desktop anymore. Alas I'm not even able to persuade my wife or sister anymore. There is the lack of Flash, the so-so Wine port (there are some applications which don't run in FreeBSD wine as supposed), problems with some default devices (like mice, keyboards) and so on. It's my desktop, it's the desktop for many people who can cope with it, but it's far from the desktop for the 'masses'. But there is Linux and it fills the gap. It's maybe not the best, but at least it's open source like FreeBSD :-)
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