Jim Cheetham wrote: > That is the main reason that I run a Mac OS X machine at home - > networking, printing, peripherals in general, email and web will "just > work".
I went to the Apple show at the convention centre today. I've been getting p---d off at both Windows and the various XFree86 desktops recently and was becoming highly interested in the upcoming OSX Panther. Well, let's just say I'm impressed. And the 1.6GHz G5 is priced quite reasonably for an Apple. I'd love to see how the dual 2GHz box would handle the CFD thermal modelling software at work. > My Linux box at work has too many choices - sound and printing aren't > working at the moment, because I don't know what back-end I'm supposed to > be fixing ... cups or lpd? esound, alsa, what? The problem with the Linux desktop is that its too fragmented. I consider that to be both a good thing and a bad thing. Pro: it gives you choice. Con: A lot of apps are being written for either one desktop or another. If you run a KDE app on Enlightenment it takes forever to start as KDE has to be initialised first. I haven't bothered trying to set up printing, and I'm not going to :) I am only using Linux for coding and a couple of little X games now. The one thing XFree86 has going for it is Xscreensaver :) I must see if I can convince it to run in the root window like xlock could. Right now I want to just dump the lot and stick an Apple under my desk. I'm hoping the Powermac G4 boxes become more affordable as the G5 becomes available during the next week or so. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
