Martin B�hr wrote:
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:51:20PM +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote:I once used an iMac with OS X. During the start it displayed no information, there was no commandline, no choice, in what desktop environment I wanted to use and only IE and safari. The best thing about the GNU/Linux distributions is that that you have for most things at least two, often more than ten choices. Another thing is configurability. Under KDE you can for example configure the task bar (klipper) as much as you like. Under Mac OS that was not possible or at least not obvious.
For many people that might be good, but if we follow this we would probably end up with something like a mac.
why would that be a bad thing?
The strong side of GNU/Linux is that it is fully configurable and that
those people who know what they are doing can get the most out of
their boxes. The best would be something that combines simplicity and
flexibility.
how does mac OS X not offer that?
Yes either that or KDE and Gnome get as good as aqua. Free software is improving at an incredibly rapid rate.if you have used mac os x i am curious to see some examples of where you feel the flexibility is lost, and how GNU/Linux would improve there?
the only problem i see with mac os x is that the gui stuff is not free.
but GNUstep is catching up, and eventually we will ahve a gui that
rivals that of mac os x and leaves kde and gnome in the dust.
greetings, martin.When apple offers an operating system with at least half the rpms and configurability as let's say SuSE and when they preinstall a bash, Camino/Firefox/Mozilla and KDE or Gnome as a second desktop environment I consider buying it. Oh, and they should really think about adding one or two more mouse buttons. Using always this combination of keypad and mouse is annoying. ;)
Happy Hacking, Robert
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