On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 09:48:41 -0500, Omnus Necromancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I know, call me a heathen, but I'm really starting to question the
> usefulness of linux. I installed it perfectly on my TiBook Onyx and got
> everything working, almost. The video needed a special experimental
> kernel to run, and my sound was monologue, the dvd drive could not read
> cd disks or dvd disks, but only formatted data disks. I couldn't figure
> out how to get linux to read my osx partition, even though that sort of
> labotomized my computer, but I dealt with it. Other than these few
> problems I had a smoothly running and very content little linux system.
> It did everything it said it would do, and more, I enjoyed it very
> much. However I didn't run a server with linux, I simply used it as a
> development platform, and then I got my hands on a cocoa book.
>
> I sat down with the 5gb partition of what was left of my osx distro and
> began to toy with cocoa, and then I found out what an awesome
> development platform I already had. It had no hardware driver
> difficulties so I had stereo sound, full video card support (which was
> important to me as I use OGL) and it could read both music cds and dvd
> movies. Plus I found a plethora of free software for OSX and even more
> free software for Darwin. I still prefer linux over windows on a wintel
> machine, but I must say, OSX has impressed me a great deal on the mac,
> and now I pose this question to you:
>
> If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux
> specifically, why are you using it?
The PPC port of Mandrake is still relatively new, and PPC development for free
software in general does not get nearly as much support as x86 development. Of
course Apple hardware will work with OSX, since Apple control both hardware and
software. Apple hardware is often quite proprietary and is therefore difficult
to get going in non Apple OSs. I would expect this factor to be multiplied in a
notebook system.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
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