Thank you (for making the ports less boring).

[Tony Mc]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:27:22 +0200
Michal Varga <varga.michal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have no other words beyond that because I can't even seriously
> imagine what those people stating how everything is perfectly fine
> now consider to be a working, modern, 24/7 ready desktop workstation.

I am interested to know what you regard as a modern 24/7 ready desktop
workstation.  Seriously, I would like to know what you think I am
missing by being happy with FreeBSD.  I manage to read stuff, write
stuff, print stuff, listen to stuff, watch stuff, backup stuff, archive
stuff, burn CDs and DVDs - what am I missing?  I use tcsh
and command-line tools and Emacs and org-mode and LaTeX and claws-mail
and Firefox and Rhythmbox and JPilot to sync with my Palm TX.  When
people send me Microsoft Office documents I even use LibreOffice
occasionally.  I use XFCE4 as my desktop environment and switch virtual
desktops to focus on different kinds of activity. The computer runs
24/7 and performs housekeeping tasks overnight and is there again in
the morning when I need to start work.

I suppose my needs aren't that sophisticated - but I also wonder if
what is missing is truly sophistication or simply different ways of
accomplishing existing tasks.  So if you have the time I would genuinely
be interested to learn what a modern desktop machine now needs or
offers.

Best,
Tony