On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:29:47PM -0600, Sean Brown wrote: > She'll thank you for it, Mum's shouldn't have to rebuild kernels.
Then I won't be installing Mac OS X on it, she may be tempted with the xnu sources floating around. ;-) > my mum still thinks fondly of the Mac, and an SE was the first thing > that I bought after getting my first job. I don't know if my mom thinks fondly of the Colour Classic, or if she thinks it is cute and doesn't have much of a liking for laptops. Perhaps she finds the compact Mac screen easier to read, the hardware more durable, or just thinks that laptops are too expensive. I recall my dad seeing my SE or SE/30 after working on the FreeBSD box for a while, and he said that he liked the former better because the screen was sharper and there was only one mouse button to worry about. > BTW what is FreeBSD on that she can't copy recipes to a floppy and get > them from the Mac to BSD. The export to HTML feature I designed is better suited to creating an entire website and she doesn't have anywhere to host it. Even then, there are a bunch of small problems: ensuring the disk is MS-DOS formatted, compressing the files in a Unix friendly format so that they will fit on a single floppy disk and be accessible in FreeBSD, decompressing them in FreeBSD, FTPing them to the webserver, verifying that the permissions are correct. If you don't think that the feature is important, you won't want to learn all of the little details. Compounding the problem is the lack of fancy software to deal with these problems. I've avoided gtk+ and qt based programs because it is an older machine. Though the specifications are quite impressive when compared to her upgraded Colour Classic (LC 575), it still feels slow. Then again, a web browser on a Colour Classic would also feel slow. Byron. -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
