[luau] Ditch OS X for Linux

Virgil virgil at hawaii.rr.com
Mon May 26 06:56:01 PDT 2003


On 5/25/03 8:51 AM, "Jan Daniel Semrau" <jsemrau at campus.hpu.edu> wrote:

Hi Jan,

One thing that Linux on PPC does is give Apple users a choice and we all
know that choice is good.

I do think that he did give OS X a chance. I have desame ibook as he does
and sometimes when I run some of my applications it gives me that rainbow
wheel spinning in eternity.

I'd like to ask what is tomaranai Rinux U? Some Japanese band?


Regards,

Virgil

> Hi Virgil,
> 
> I actually read the whole article. What a waste of time ;-)
> He is bashing OSX without having even fully experienced OSX!
> Apparently, I do own the same notebook. However, I upgraded it to 384
> MB RAM. And that is exactly enough for most of my applications. I use
> 10.1.5. I agree, that Mac OSX could be snappier in some rare occasions,
> and I think that >10.2 it is. Nonetheless, I have rarely complained
> about speed except in the inital 10.1 release. But at that point of
> time, neither my CD writer nor my DVD were working. Moreover, I do have
> that amazing voice recognition software, Mp3 and Mpeg streamer,
> PostgreSQL, Apache (with PHP support), Videolan,  Mozilla Firebird,
> nmap, Fire, and of course ProjectBuilder running. I think that this
> iBook was one of the best purchases ever. That said, some *nix software
> does not work properly on my system (yet). I should walk over to
> tell'em. XFree86 is slow. Especially when running OpenOffice.
> I use and love fink and just yesterday I installed the clisp
> interpreter. 
> If that dude is happier with an iBook running Linux, good for him. It
> might increase the speed of the system because everything is not that
> "flashy", he might find way more programs than for pure osx. I still
> haven't got the globus toolkit nor openAFS to work. Although the
> Kereberos client worked "out of the box".
> Last, I do believe that he never really planned to stick with Mac OSX.
> But then a switch to Yellow Dog or Debian on the iBook is still a cool
> thing to do. ;-) I guess that's what Matisha did, if he is still
> around?  
> 
> Tomaranai Rinaxu!
> 
> Cheers, Dan 
> 
> Virgil wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Here's a good article concerning a Macuser  (OS X) who switched to
> Linux.
>> For you mac people it might make for an interesting read.
>> 
> 
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