Oh yeah, I like Macs. I just don't have one. :) Plus there's always fink and opendarwin to look at for your book.
:) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: RE: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (Your sins are forgiven) > Ken, > > While on my 6 month gig at HP in Roseville, > (project, IA64 Quad CPU, 96 Gig memory) I had the pleasure of > meeting and spending time with one of HPs chief UNIX/Linux gurus. > He has extensive knowledgable of all things 'NIX, and championed > Mac OSX lineage systems. He had one as his primary box > at work (along with all of the other machines stuffed in his cube) > and also had one at home with a large-screen LCD. > > Marty > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Ken Mink > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession) > > > I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much > full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies > in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer, > having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful. > > For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main > machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out > as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse > and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally > the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same > anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's > different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an > old friend. I just feel dirty. > > I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux > distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy > the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at > work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that > it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For > now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere. > > I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work, > but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end > of an era. > > Ken > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin > " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it > is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
