On 2/15/10 12:26 AM, williamd wrote:
On 13 Feb 2010, at 23.12, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Perhaps a better question to ask is *why* do you want to install these
OS'es?
More than anything it seemed like a good use for an imac that was just
collecting dust. Besides that, I'd most like to check out various gui
options such as gnome, kde, and others. Other than OS X I haven't looked
at -nix in years. I'm interested to see if they are now more user
friendly. Maybe I should just install Tiger and learn to change the
desktop guis via command line in terminal?
The various Linuxs may be more user friendly than they were but not more
so than OS X. I've been trying many of them out, Debian (ver 2,3,4, 5
and "6"), Fedora (ver 9, 10 & 12), Yellow Dog (ver 3, 4 & 5), SUSE (ver
11) and Ubuntu (ver 9). I've installed them on old world (where
possible), new world Macs and an AMD based system. Somewhere around
90-95% of the cases I had to do some futzing to get system to boot,
mostly tweaking the X11 configuration. Coming up to a shell prompt or
blank screen is definitely NOT my idea of more friendly. Every time I
hear someone suggest something like "or just install Linux on it, it's
simple" I'm glad I'm not drinking something at the time as I'd have a
thoroughly soaked computer to deal with. I keep hearing about Linux
being the wave of the future but it isn't going to be until just getting
a computer to boot properly is much easier.
And if you were to ask why I'm doing all this, well, I don't think I can
remember why, banging my head on a post seems to have wiped out that memory.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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