Re: Why don't you eat your own dog food?

On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 at  2:19:07 +0100, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question is mainly to the FreeBSD developers, as the title
>  say, why don't you eat your own dog food?

Because then my dogs would go hungry.

> I don't think I have ever seen anyone from the FreeBSD project
> giving a presentation, or doing a live stream, or a YouTube video,
> or anything else in which you can see the persons computer
> screen, in which he or she runs FreeBSD as the desktop
> operating system. Either it's Mac OS or Windows.

Clearly we move in different circles.  I have never seen a FreeBSD
project member give a presentation with Microsoft.  A couple with
Apple, yes, which I didn't understand.  And you can find a photo of me
in front of eureka.lemis.com, my FreeBSD desktop, at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/.  Yes, that's one computer driving those 4
monitors.

I have been using BSD almost exclusively for over 30 years.  In the
beginning there was no FreeBSD, only BSD/386, but I have been using
FreeBSD since 1995.  I have done all my presentations, including a
couple that were Linux-centric, with laptops running FreeBSD.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/Papers/linux.conf.au.pdf and
http://www.lemis.com/grog/slashdot/ for the Linux connection.

I'm not the only one.  As Poul-Henning Kamp used to have in his .sig
when that sort of thing was fashionable,

  "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."

And of course there are many more.

Greg
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