Dennis Ritchie, when he started teaching at university, said that the first thing he did when they handed him a Windows laptop was to install cygwin so he could get work done.Windows is useless to me as it lacks native scripting language, editors and so many other fundamental things which are available mostly through cygwin. Everything is so complicated and hidden behind the GUI.
What is the reason for using graphical desktop?
IIRC Dennis Ritchie was teaching at Princeton University. I have a hard time believing that story. I am not so familiar with their CS department but I am very familiar with their mathematics department. Until 2001-2001 all their desktops run Solaris or Irix. After that Red Hat maybe some OS X. Once Red Hat became proprietary they were the first one to create RHEL based distroDennis Ritchie, when he started teaching at university, said that the first thing he did when they handed him a Windows laptop was to install cygwin so he could get work done.
No it doesn't provide statistics about BSDs. It provides statistics about systems running sysutils/bsdstats script which didn't even work on NetBSD until recently. PC-BSD installs and runs that script by default while I am truly surprised to see even that many OpenBSD installations considering that most of our community is very distrustful and hostile to sysutils/bsdstats. Personally if I have to estimate the number of serious people running a flavour of BSD on the desktop (no multi-boot and toying with the system but honest day to day full time use) I would put OpenBSD as number one, DragonFly distant second followed closely by PC-BSD and vanilla FreeBSD.http://bsdstats.org/ provides statistics about BSD operating systems.
No it doesn't provide statistics about BSDs. It provides statistics about systems running sysutils/bsdstats script which didn't even work on NetBSD until recently. PC-BSD installs and runs that script by default while I am truly surprised to see even that many OpenBSD installations considering that most of our community is very distrustful and hostile to sysutils/bsdstats. Personally if I have to estimate the number of serious people running a flavour of BSD on the desktop (no multi-boot and toying with the system but honest day to day full time use) I would put OpenBSD as number one, DragonFly distant second followed closely by PC-BSD and vanilla FreeBSD.
Admins could post the number of users frequenting this forum and desktop OS from which posts are made. I would bet $50 that the Linux/Android is number one, followed by Windows, OS X (both laptops and iPods), and then few people running vanilla FreeBSD and PC-BSD (probably no more than 15%-20%. I am an outlier running OpenBSD but even many of my posts have been done from Android devices.
I wasn't aware of that. Why?most of our community is very distrustful and hostile to sysutils/bsdstats.