Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-09-17 Thread KIRIYAMA Kazuhiko
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Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-17 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-17 08:07, John Baldwin wrote: > On 5/12/14, 1:35 PM, Allan Jude wrote: >> I have this system: >> >> hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz >> hw.ncpu: 4 >> >> http://ark.intel.com/products/75052 >> >> dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU >> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu >> dev.cpu.0.%location

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-17 Thread John Baldwin
On 5/12/14, 1:35 PM, Allan Jude wrote: > I have this system: > > hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz > hw.ncpu: 4 > > http://ark.intel.com/products/75052 > > dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU > dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu > dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0 > dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=non

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-13 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-13 02:06, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Did you set cx_lowest on hw.acpi.cpu ? > > > -a > > > On 12 May 2014 20:07, Allan Jude wrote: >> Before and after cx_lowest=c8 on an E5-2620v2 >> >> before: >> >> # pcm.x 1 >> >> Intel(r) Performance Counter Monitor V2.6 (2013-11-04 13:43:31 >> +0100 ID=d

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
Did you set cx_lowest on hw.acpi.cpu ? -a On 12 May 2014 20:07, Allan Jude wrote: > Before and after cx_lowest=c8 on an E5-2620v2 > > before: > > # pcm.x 1 > > Intel(r) Performance Counter Monitor V2.6 (2013-11-04 13:43:31 +0100 > ID=db05e43) > > Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Intel Corporation > >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Allan Jude
Before and after cx_lowest=c8 on an E5-2620v2 before: # pcm.x 1 Intel(r) Performance Counter Monitor V2.6 (2013-11-04 13:43:31 +0100 ID=db05e43) Copyright (c) 2009-2013 Intel Corporation Number of physical cores: 12 Number of logical cores: 24 Threads (logical cores) per physical core: 2 Num

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Allan Jude
On 05/12/2014 22:09, Allan Jude wrote: > > Will try to grab results from a few more machines > > > ___ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-cu

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Allan Jude
On 05/12/2014 22:12, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2014-05-12 14:25, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Just run intel-pcm and see. Thanks, -a > > Not sure if this is expected or not, but on > > Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz > > > all of the pcm.x tools just hang (cpu state: usem) > > > _

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-12 14:25, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Just run intel-pcm and see. Thanks, -a Not sure if this is expected or not, but on Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz all of the pcm.x tools just hang (cpu state: usem) ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-12 14:25, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 12 May 2014 10:35, Allan Jude wrote: >> I have this system: >> >> hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz >> hw.ncpu: 4 >> >> http://ark.intel.com/products/75052 >> >> dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU >> dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu >> dev.cpu.0.%locati

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 12 May 2014 10:35, Allan Jude wrote: > I have this system: > > hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz > hw.ncpu: 4 > > http://ark.intel.com/products/75052 > > dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU > dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu > dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0 > dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-12 Thread Allan Jude
I have this system: hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz hw.ncpu: 4 http://ark.intel.com/products/75052 dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0 dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 3100 dev.cp

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 07, 2014 a las 12:14:16PM +0800, Jia-Shiun Li escribió: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > # dmesg > > ... > > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz (900.11-MHz 686-class > > CPU) > > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6d8 Family

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-06 Thread Jia-Shiun Li
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > # dmesg > ... > CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz (900.11-MHz 686-class > CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6d8 Family = 0x6 Model = 0xd Stepping = 8 > > Features=0xafe9fbff > AMD Features=0x10 > real

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-06 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 6 May 2014 09:38, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I wanted to implement the power saving hints we discussed in my tiny > EeePC 900, but it says: > > root@tiny-r255948:~ # uname -a > FreeBSD tiny-r255948 10.0-ALPHA4 FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 #1: Fri Oct 18 > 12:10:57 CEST 2013 g...@aurora.sis

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, May 06, 2014 a las 01:00:21PM -0400, Allan Jude escribió: > > EeePC 900, but it says: > > > > root@tiny-r255948:~ # uname -a > > FreeBSD tiny-r255948 10.0-ALPHA4 FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 #1: Fri Oct 18 > > 12:10:57 CEST 2013 g...@aurora.sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > i38

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-06 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-06 12:38, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I wanted to implement the power saving hints we discussed in my tiny > EeePC 900, but it says: > > root@tiny-r255948:~ # uname -a > FreeBSD tiny-r255948 10.0-ALPHA4 FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 #1: Fri Oct 18 > 12:10:57 CEST 2013 g...@aurora.s

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I wanted to implement the power saving hints we discussed in my tiny EeePC 900, but it says: root@tiny-r255948:~ # uname -a FreeBSD tiny-r255948 10.0-ALPHA4 FreeBSD 10.0-ALPHA4 #1: Fri Oct 18 12:10:57 CEST 2013 g...@aurora.sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 root@tiny-r255948:

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-05 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday, May 04, 2014 4:40:02 pm Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hm, I was hoping for a little more discussion. Mostly around the > "which older CPUs do we leave this on for?" crowd. > > I have Pentium-M class hardware that I was going to spin up -HEAD on. > > So I'll go install -HEAD on said older hardw

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, May 05, 2014 a las 12:36:08PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > Btw: the values in /etc/rc.conf > > performance_cx_lowest="Cmax" > economy_cx_lowest="Cmax" > > to which launched process they belong as config values? Forget the question. The values are used by /etc/rc.d/power_pro

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, May 05, 2014 a las 12:09:02PM +0200, Stefan Esser escribió: > > In the output of: > > > > $ sysctl -a | fgrep dev.cpu.0.freq_ > > dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1600/2000 1333/1533 1066/1066 800/600 > > > > what does mean the value after the slash .../ ? > > This is the nominal power

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 05.05.2014 11:17, schrieb Matthias Apitz: > El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: > >> Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you will use >> the lowest available. The correct incantation in rc.conf is "Cmax". >> performance_cx_lowe

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-05 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: > Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you will use > the lowest available. The correct incantation in rc.conf is "Cmax". > performance_cx_lowest="Cmax" > economy_cx_lowest="Cmax" > > But, unles

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
throttling is disabled now. -a On 4 May 2014 21:27, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Nathan Whitehorn > wrote: > >> On 05/04/14 10:05, Allan Jude wrote: >> >>> On 2014-05-04 11:47, Allan Jude wrote: >>> On 2014-05-04 10:28, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sa

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 05/04/14 10:05, Allan Jude wrote: > >> On 2014-05-04 11:47, Allan Jude wrote: >> >>> On 2014-05-04 10:28, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: On Sa

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hm, I was hoping for a little more discussion. Mostly around the "which older CPUs do we leave this on for?" crowd. I have Pentium-M class hardware that I was going to spin up -HEAD on. So I'll go install -HEAD on said older hardware and get a list of what does and doesn't work. I'm totally fine

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 05/04/14 10:05, Allan Jude wrote: On 2014-05-04 11:47, Allan Jude wrote: On 2014-05-04 10:28, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Set it to the lowest available Cx state t

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-04 11:47, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2014-05-04 10:28, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: >> >>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-04 10:28, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: > >> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >>> Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 . >>> >>> >> Available is not required. Set

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 05/03/14 22:29, Adrian Chadd wrote: On 3 May 2014 21:52, Allan Jude wrote: * use cpufreq with some heuristics (like say, only step down to 2/3rd the frequency if idle) - and document why that decision is made (eg on CPU X, measuring Y at idle, power consumption was minimal at frequency=Z.);

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 04:59:48PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 . > > > > > Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you will use > the

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Well, hardware got better. A lot better. I'm happy to leave speedstep > and throttling in there but teach powerd about using C-states and > limited frequency stepping if it's available. > > So, how about something like this: > > * if C

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 3 May 2014 21:52, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2014-05-04 00:49, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Well, hardware got better. A lot better. I'm happy to leave speedstep >> and throttling in there but teach powerd about using C-states and >> limited frequency stepping if it's available. >> >> So, how a

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-05-04 00:49, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Well, hardware got better. A lot better. I'm happy to leave speedstep > and throttling in there but teach powerd about using C-states and > limited frequency stepping if it's available. > > So, how about something like this: > > * if C states ar

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, Well, hardware got better. A lot better. I'm happy to leave speedstep and throttling in there but teach powerd about using C-states and limited frequency stepping if it's available. So, how about something like this: * if C states are available - let's just use C states and not step the cpu

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 05/03/14 16:59, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> >> Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 . >>> >>> >>> Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarante

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
TCC is fine. TCC for doing anything other than _thermal throttling_ these days isn't. I've been kind of trying hard to avoid touching it as I'm worried it'll stick to me, but something tells me i'm just going to have to bite the bullet and grab ownership of this stuff... :( -a On 3 May 2014

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Nathan Whitehorn
On 05/03/14 16:59, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 . Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you will use the lowest available. The correct incantation in rc.conf

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 . > > Available is not required. Set it to C8. That guarantees that you will use the lowest available. The correct incantation in rc.conf is "Cmax". performance_cx_lowest="Cmax"

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
Set it to the lowest available Cx state that you see in dev.cpu.0 . -a On 3 May 2014 12:23, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 09:37:08AM -0700, Adrian Chadd escribió: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm working on adding some more power management logging support to >> freebsd-head so

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, May 03, 2014 a las 09:37:08AM -0700, Adrian Chadd escribió: > Hi, > > I'm working on adding some more power management logging support to > freebsd-head so we can start to get a better grip on sleep/wakeup > occurances. That should help us start to figure out where the power > co

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I'm working on adding some more power management logging support to freebsd-head so we can start to get a better grip on sleep/wakeup occurances. That should help us start to figure out where the power consumption is going. But on that EEEPC 900, just make sure you've set dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-05-03 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, April 01, 2014 a las 08:38:28AM +0100, David Chisnall escribió: > > Just a small note here: Improving power management is something that the Core > Team and the Foundation have jointly identified as an important goal, in > particular for mobile / embedded scenarios. We're curre

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 08:38:28AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 1 Apr 2014, at 08:11, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 1. Power. As you point out, being truly power efficient is a complete > > top-to-bottom engineering effort and it takes a lot more than just trying > > to idle the processor whenev

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:21:34AM +0200, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > > Since when is GIMP an alternative to Lightroom? I was talking about > > raw processors, not raster image manipulators. > > The opensource alternatives to Lightroom come not close to the original. They maybe not yet a drop-in

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:49:31AM +0200, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > > There are a few alternatives to Lightroom available in Ports Collection, > > you might want to give them a try one day. > > > offtopic: > But it does not even come close to Lightroom. Gimp is also not even > close to Photoshop.

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:10:22PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > FreeBSD desktop since 3.3 (makes me a newbie!) I really dislike pulseaudio > and have managed to live without it. Firefox works fine without it. > Unfortunately they dropped OSS support a while go, so I now must use alsa, > but it wor

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
> Since when is GIMP an alternative to Lightroom? I was talking about > raw processors, not raster image manipulators. > The opensource alternatives to Lightroom come not close to the original. The _same_ is true for GIMP which is hardly workable and is not more then a nice showcase but its usabi

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-03 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
> There are a few alternatives to Lightroom available in Ports Collection, > you might want to give them a try one day. > offtopic: But it does not even come close to Lightroom. Gimp is also not even close to Photoshop. Maybe Pixelmator. But Gimp? The UI and usability is such a mess. But again it's

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:10:22PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > FreeBSD desktop since 3.3 (makes me a newbie!) I really dislike > pulseaudio > > and have managed to live without it. Firefox works fine without it. > > Unfortunately they

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Adrian Chadd
No wifi. Someone has to step up and "own" broadcom wifi or this will never change. -a On 2 April 2014 18:44, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> Hmmm. I'm a bit biased here, but I've been using FreeBSD on the >> desktop since, well, b

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Alexey Dokuchaev
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 06:40:18PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Hmmm. I'm a bit biased here, but I've been using FreeBSD on the > desktop since, well, before it was called FreeBSD. It's still my > primary platform for nearly everything (except photo management, which > drove me to a Mac laptop

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > >> This is like trying to predict automobile technology and dominant >> car-makers by 1905. There's always room for competition. Take a look >> at what's happening right now in the auto-in

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread O. Hartmann
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:10:22 -0700 Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > No, mutt, with vim as mail composer. :) > > > > +1 > > > > matthias > > > > (FreeBSD since 2.2.5 and sending this from an EeePC 900, > > netbook, UMTS connected, KDE4 desktop, sound, webcam, vim, mutt, > >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 02.04.14 04:26, Adrian Chadd wrote: It's no longer "xorg just speaks to the graphics chip." This is a common trend in computing recently. What once required tightly integrated OS/applications is now distributed, in the widest sense. The so called "Personal Computer" is nowadays actually s

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 02.04.14 15:52, David Chisnall wrote: On 2 Apr 2014, at 13:40, Daniel Kalchev wrote: On 02.04.14 12:22, David Chisnall wrote: The use case that PulseAudio was [over]designed to fix was plugging in USB headphones (or connecting a Bluetooth headset) and having existing audio streams redir

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 2 Apr 2014, at 13:40, Daniel Kalchev wrote: > > On 02.04.14 12:22, David Chisnall wrote: >> The use case that PulseAudio was [over]designed to fix was plugging in USB >> headphones (or connecting a Bluetooth headset) and having existing audio >> streams redirected there. > > Please don't e

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 02.04.14 12:22, David Chisnall wrote: The use case that PulseAudio was [over]designed to fix was plugging in USB headphones (or connecting a Bluetooth headset) and having existing audio streams redirected there. Please don't ever make this behavior the default! Imagine, you have an audio

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > This is like trying to predict automobile technology and dominant > car-makers by 1905. There's always room for competition. Take a look > at what's happening right now in the auto-industry. Tesla came out of > nowhere 125 years after the invent

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Person, Roderick wrote: > Why aren't all the nerds and small businesses out there a market? Too few of you to justify the capital outlay. Now, if we were talking about a $1500 watch that was very nerdy and appealed to the inner James Bond in lots of non-nerds, t

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: > I have Macs at work (typing on one now), and a mac at home. I like them. > [ … ] > It’s just like being back in the 80s, when Unix had a desktop market, only > much, much faster. Worry not, there’s a product just for you now! http://www.macs

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Lars Engels
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:22:32AM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: > On 1 Apr 2014, at 23:10, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting > > my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is > > a bit ugly,but I only

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Apr 2014, at 23:10, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Audio output is pretty system dependent, but I had little problem getting > my audio to auto-switch to headphones when I plugged them in. The setup is > a bit ugly,but I only had to check the available PINs (ugly, ugly) and set > up stuff once. It j

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 1 April 2014 15:40, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <533b3903.7030...@rancid.berkeley.edu>, > mich...@rancid.berkeley.edu writes: > >>I have been using FreeBSD on the desktop since 1997, > > Hmmm. I'm a bit biased here, but I've been using FreeBSD on the > desktop since, well, before it wa

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Garrett Wollman
In article <533b3903.7030...@rancid.berkeley.edu>, mich...@rancid.berkeley.edu writes: >I have been using FreeBSD on the desktop since 1997, Hmmm. I'm a bit biased here, but I've been using FreeBSD on the desktop since, well, before it was called FreeBSD. It's still my primary platform for near

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, April 01, 2014 a las 07:43:02PM +0200, Lars Engels > escribió: > > > > > > > That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the > > > > > > desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the > > >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 04/01/2014 07:46, dte...@freebsd.org wrote: > Eitan, > > While I understand your frustration, VICOR is using FreeBSD as a Desktop since > FreeBSD 2.2. We don't use sound and we are fine relying on vesa. > > While I understand that the things you listed are actual short-comings for > normal >

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, April 01, 2014 a las 07:43:02PM +0200, Lars Engels escribió: > > > > > That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the > > > > > desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the > > [snip] > > > > > I'm a happy FreeBSD desktop user since 4.7. There

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
> -Original Message- >> From: owner-freebsd-advoc...@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-advoc...@freebsd.org] On >> Behalf Of Randi Harper >> >>You know you opened a can of worms with that one. Because all the nerds are >>going to step >> up and say "Well, I run FreeBSD on my >desktop!

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Tue, April 1, 2014 11:59 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > > >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard >> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler >>> wrote: >>> >>> That is why on this date I propose that w

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Brian Kim
Hi all, I have been a member of the FreeBSD hackers mailing list for about a year.5 now and I must say that I was looking forward to this year's 4/1 email. Last year, I didn't even realize that the discussion of promoting i386 as a tier 1 architecture was a joke until someone blatantly mentioned i

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard > wrote: > > > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > >> That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the > >> desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the >> desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the Linux >> desktop" and start to rip out the pieces of

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
> > On Mon, March 31, 2014 10:46 pm, Eitan Adler wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" >> and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can be a >> worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop.

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Lars Engels
sd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd- > > advoc...@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:11:19PM +0500, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > > >

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Person, Roderick
-Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-advoc...@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-advoc...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Randi Harper > >You know you opened a can of worms with that one. Because all the nerds are >going to step up and say "Well, I run FreeBSD on my >desktop! It's totally

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Allan Jude
On 2014-04-01 03:11, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 1. Power. As you point out, being truly power efficient is a complete > top-to-bottom engineering effort and it takes a lot more than just trying to > idle the processor whenever possible to achieve that. You need to optimize > all of the hot-spo

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 1, 2014, at 6:57 AM, Sean Bruno wrote: > Why even bother? Its over, just embrace the future and be like this > happy Mac user: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/happy_desktop_user.jpg I have Macs at work (typing on one now), and a mac at home. I like them. I recently installed Fr

Fwd: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Stefan Wendler
Sorry, should have replied to everybody ;) Cheers -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Market Date: Tuesday 01 April 2014, 17:34:28 From: Stefan Wendler To: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org Hi, On Monday 31 March 2014 22:46:45 Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Chris H
educational experience. While FreeBSD > can be coerced to do the right thing, it is rarely there by default > and often doesn't work as well as we would expect. Ha, ha, ha. Reminds me of the long running 04-01 gag stating that kernel.org ran on FreeBSD. As to "Leaving the Desktop

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Mon, March 31, 2014 10:46 pm, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi all, > > > Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" > and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can be a > worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop. > In shor

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Jakub Lach
it goes that way due to some update unfortunately. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Leaving-the-Desktop-Market-tp5899597p5899727.html Sent from the freebsd-current mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread dteske
> -Original Message- > From: Lars Engels [mailto:lars.eng...@0x20.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:41 AM > To: Jordan Hubbard > Cc: Eitan Adler; hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd- > advoc...@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Leaving the Desktop Marke

RE: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread dteske
> -Original Message- > From: Eitan Adler [mailto:li...@eitanadler.com] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 10:47 PM > To: hack...@freebsd.org; curr...@freebsd.org; freebsd- > advoc...@freebsd.org > Subject: Leaving the Desktop Market > > Hi all, > > Some

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Sean Bruno
On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 22:46 -0700, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hi all, > > Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" > and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can > be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a > desktop. In sho

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Jordan Hubbard
On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the > desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the Linux > desktop" and start to rip out the pieces of the OS not needed for > server or embedded use. > > Some of y

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
On 4/1/2014 1:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi all, Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop. In short, it is an educational

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Daniel Kalchev
Hice April 1st piece, Let's see what I could contribute :) On 01.04.14 08:46, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi all, Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Lars Engels
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 12:11:19PM +0500, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > > > That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the > > desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the Linux > > desktop" and start to rip out

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread David Chisnall
On 1 Apr 2014, at 08:11, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > 1. Power. As you point out, being truly power efficient is a complete > top-to-bottom engineering effort and it takes a lot more than just trying to > idle the processor whenever possible to achieve that. You need to optimize > all of the hot-

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
Hi, On 04/01/14 07:46, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi all, Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop. In short, it is an educatio

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-03-31 Thread Julian Elischer
On 4/1/14, 1:46 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: Hi all Hey it's not an apr 1 joke if it's true.. ___ freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr.

Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-03-31 Thread Eitan Adler
Hi all, Some of you may have seen my posts entitled "Story of a Laptop User" and "Story of a Desktop User". For those of you who did not, it can be a worthwhile read to see what life is like when using FreeBSD as a desktop. In short, it is an educational experience. While FreeBSD can be coerced