Shannon Roddy wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2003, at 3:50 PM, Brad Bendily wrote:
>
>> I mean I KNOW
>> some of you use windows from time to time.
>> I figured someone would have tried this before me.
>>
>>
> Well, I for one have found one more way to lessen the need for Windows
> in my life. I am now using an Apple Power Book with MacOS X as my
> primary machine. Let me tell you it is sweet. Full X11 support, GCC,
> most of the Linux stuff will run on here, as well as having many
> commercial software packages available.
Bah a Real Man? would install gentoo on it and run MOL for OSX :-P
} eric {$uname -a
Linux hepheastus 2.6.0-test9 #5 Thu Nov 6 14:18:13 CST 2003 ppc 0 7455,
altivec supported GNU/Linux
haha, just pickin, OSX is pretty nice but running linux on a portable
desktop is pretty powerful, the only thing I cannot get working on the
linux side that OSX has is the internal mic.
> Such as Macromedia, MS Office (yuck...), TaxCut, Quicken, you name
> it. Besides, it is one more Unix(ish) OS out there that I figured I
> should be familiar with. And it has a really sweet GUI. I skipped
> from my Apple IIe in 1984 to this. Completely skipped over all of the
> other Apple OSs. Not that I had any desire to run those. But, when
> they went Unix, I figured I would eventually give it a shot. Just got
> to get used to only having one $*&&^#@ mouse button!
In linux I mapped the little 'enter' button to the second mouse button,
so I don't miss a beat. I usualy use a 3 button laser usb mouse with
my powerbook anyhow.
>
>
> Shannon
>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> General mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
>
>
