Steve Bibayoff wrote:
Hello,
On 6/30/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Right, but, see, I don't run Windows. I run OS X.
My comparison standard is better than Linux, not worse.
You are then comparing apples to grape nuts. (Of course I could be
wrong, but) you didn't just buy/acquire OS X and install it on any
machine you had, you bought the OS and the hardware together, already
installed, tested, and integrated.
If you want to do a compassion of the same scenario, install OS X on
your Dell, or buy hardware from a vendor that preinstall and *FULLY*
support GNU/Linux.
Actually, that's probably one of the most intelligent points I have seen
made lately. However, I can't *buy* a system that has everything open
sourced and *FULLY* supported. The graphics drivers break on every
single kernel upgrade. Similarly with the wireless networking drivers.
At that point, I might as well go with OS X.
The grief surrounding OpenGL was what pushed me to OS X to start 3 years
ago. It has not improved.
In fact, the laptop I *DO* have is the last ATI card which had open
specifications and so actually has an open source 3D driver. It's kinda
slow, but when I need to do OpenGL work I pull it out.
And then I run into USB/Firewire boot/install idiocies because the
machine is no longer supported.
I am praying for the day that the open source folks finally get the
Unichrome drivers handling OpenGL in hardware so I can buy a machine
with true, open source OpenGL support installable directly from the
distribution install disks. I would probably go buy that machine the
next day. Given that it would be a Via-based machine, it would probably
even be cheap.
-a
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