Hi Virgil, I actually read the whole article. What a waste of time ;-) He is bashing OSX without having even fully experienced OSX! Apparently, I do own the same notebook. However, I upgraded it to 384 MB RAM. And that is exactly enough for most of my applications. I use 10.1.5. I agree, that Mac OSX could be snappier in some rare occasions, and I think that >10.2 it is. Nonetheless, I have rarely complained about speed except in the inital 10.1 release. But at that point of time, neither my CD writer nor my DVD were working. Moreover, I do have that amazing voice recognition software, Mp3 and Mpeg streamer, PostgreSQL, Apache (with PHP support), Videolan, Mozilla Firebird, nmap, Fire, and of course ProjectBuilder running. I think that this iBook was one of the best purchases ever. That said, some *nix software does not work properly on my system (yet). I should walk over to tell'em. XFree86 is slow. Especially when running OpenOffice. I use and love fink and just yesterday I installed the clisp interpreter. If that dude is happier with an iBook running Linux, good for him. It might increase the speed of the system because everything is not that "flashy", he might find way more programs than for pure osx. I still haven't got the globus toolkit nor openAFS to work. Although the Kereberos client worked "out of the box". Last, I do believe that he never really planned to stick with Mac OSX. But then a switch to Yellow Dog or Debian on the iBook is still a cool thing to do. ;-) I guess that's what Matisha did, if he is still around?
Tomaranai Rinaxu! Cheers, Dan Virgil wrote: >Hi all, > >Here's a good article concerning a Macuser (OS X) who switched to Linux. >For you mac people it might make for an interesting read. >
