On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:11:12PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > On Thu, July 21, 2011 12:13 pm, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > > Adding a variety of devices to a tablet still wouldn't make it an > > attractive option for me. I can't imagine doing my CS degree course-work > > on one of them, it would be a nightmare. I even found working on a laptop > > frustrating given the length of study sessions sometimes. > > As I said elsewhere in that email, I don't expect everyone to do so. I > just know several who have. As tablets and such get more powerful and the > connection systems get better it will become a more appealing option for > more and more users. > > But for a large number of non-technical users, I can see it being the most > appealing option already.
If all they want is a toy with a Web browser and an email client, I guess that works for them. I don't know if they really count for purposes of discussing the possible replacement of desktops and laptops, though, because what they really need is not a general-purpose personal computer at all. > > > > Also, due to the nature of the course-work I absolutely could not work > > with anything other than UNIX and so I have to select my hardware around > > my choice of OS which of course is FreeBSD. > > Which nicely brings us back to where this thread started: What needs to > happen to make sure FreeBSD stays relevant as computing moves to these > devices? ;) (Or should FreeBSD try to be relevant to the end-user at > all? Part of what makes this an appealing option is increased 'cloud > computing', and FreeBSD has an obviously relevant place in that, as a > high-performance and high-reliability server platform.) Getting FreeBSD on my Android smartphone without losing basic functionality (support for all the hardware on the thing, essentially) would be a good start. I'd take NetBSD or OpenBSD, too. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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