> Anthony: ... you could always use LinuxPPC.
> Alain: Does LinuxPPC require MacOS-X ?
MP0werd: No. It's not OS dependent, it's a completely
different OS.
Alain: Just to be sure that I understand, you are
saying that I can run an entirely different OS with my
PowerMac G3. Is that the case?
> Alain: Is LinuxPPC palatable to someone brought up
> with the MacOS? Is it as dweeby as UNIX?
MP0werd: Umn, I resent the idea the "dweeby as UNIX"
is bad. I rather like the CLI on my linuxppc box.
Alain: You're right. Dweeby is not equivalent to Bad.
Given a choice between something user-friendly that
doesn't work and something dweeby that does, I would
most certainly choose the one that works, despite its
dweeby-ness. Being the optimist that I am, however, I
am wishing for something that works well that is
user-friendly too.
MP0werd: The macOS should have some way to pipe stuff
without applescript. Maybe a little window that you
drop applications onto to form a pipe and then press
execute, ah, I'm rambling.
Alain: It could easily be scripted. Apple seems
satisfied these days with providing us with the right
technological underpinnings, bare bones as they are
sometimes, without following through with some killer
apps based on their technologies. Quicktime VR, for
example, was and still is a revolutionary technology
unmatched by any competitor, yet it languishes in
obscurity because, in my opinion, Apple did not follow
through with the killer apps or development tools that
would have made this technology mainstream. And this
is merely one example among many, alas!
> Alain: Most important of all, does LinuxPPC REALLY
> work? Stable, fast, reliable, easy to fix ... Is it
> ... The Holy Grail?
MP0werd: I think so, it was a snap to setup and use
for me ...
Alain: Were you quite familiar with UNIX?
MP0werd: ...unfortunately, I couldn't do much because
with my #@$@ AOHell connection, I can't put my linux
box on the net.
Alain: Nothing beats proprietorship of the means of
production !!
MP0werd: My hard drive that I have it on is 250 MBs,
just enough for the core utilities, basic networking,
and KDE.
Alain: No matter how large the disks become, our
habits always seem to fill them up to capacity such
that more is always needed. I am definitely guilty of
this. I consider 1 GB to the BARE MINIMUM these days.
Actually 4 GB is more like it, but only because I
periodically dump things onto a CDROM. If I was doing
some serious multimedia work, I would definitely have
to consider much more disk space.
MP0werd: Maybe I should get rid of KDE and put C/C++
on.
Alain: I cannot help you there.
Salutations
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