On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:36:36AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On May 11 Collins was heard saying: > ><snip> > >->An excellent point. I'm sure the flames are on the way (proprietary > >*** Not from me... > >->offering - evil, etc., etc.), but I, for one, see no reason to exclude >->Apple products from the discussion. As for as I'm concerned linux is >->unix is xxxbsd, and all are not Windows.
Agreed. I've been doing a fair amount with OS X over the last month. It's been a while since I worked in a Berserkley environment, and I'm still not totally comfortable with it, but it's head and shoulders above anything Microsoft has to offer. The biggest challenge for me was to find an adapter so that I could plug a PowerMac G4 into the PS/2 KVM switch on my desk to share my 20in Nokia monitory, Microsoft natural keyboard, and 3-button Logitech MouseMan. I despise the Apple keyboards, and one-button mice aren't fit for cat food. >*** ... because if it was not for the exagerated hard- & software prices I >would be probably owning one... IHMO the current Apple hardware prices aren't all that much more than purchasing good quality Intel hardware (not the crap that's pushed over the counter such as eMachines, and other commodity boxes). The old style iMacs are available at some pretty righteous prices. We just installed five of them at a clients replacing dumb terminals for $799.00 each retail, less than we could have done with decent Intel hardware including monitor, and considerably more economical of desktop space. They're running XFree86, xfce window manager, and running X-clients off a couple of Linux boxes and a rapidly dying SCO OpenServer box. I picked up the G4 at an auction for $750US including a very nice NEC monitor, CD-RW, and Zip-100 drive. Other than the PS-2/USB adapter the only other thing I needed to buy was a floppy drive since the only way I could convert last year's Windows TurboTax data was to write it out to floppy, then import it. That leaves only a couple of network management programs I need to run occassionaly that absolutely require that I ever run the Microsoft virus. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins.'' -- H.L. Mencken, 1923 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
