On 5/25/03 8:51 AM, "Jan Daniel Semrau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Jan, One thing that Linux on PPC does is give Apple users a choice and we all know that choice is good. I do think that he did give OS X a chance. I have desame ibook as he does and sometimes when I run some of my applications it gives me that rainbow wheel spinning in eternity. I'd like to ask what is tomaranai Rinux U? Some Japanese band? Regards, Virgil > 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
