On 26/09/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read several times on these boards how the gui on osx was only marginally > better... > I have to ask, is drug use rampant in the linux world? > There is no comparison. Even 10.2.8 is as far ahead of either ydl 3. and > ubuntu 5. as osx 10.2 is ahead of windows 3...
Chuckle. I have to (dis)agree with you there (can you tell I'm procrastinating). OS X (even 10.2.8) is far ahead of Linux in many ways (particularly robustness and quality of GUI) but it's not that much ahead of Linux than it is Windows. Modern Linux (e.g. Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, YDL 4) is a fantastic desktop solution that dwarfs Windows 3.x. It is so much more stable than Windows and the software for 95% of user needs is equal to what was available on Windows 3.1 (especially given that Abiword has now migrated to F/L-OSS (my all-time favourite Windows word processor)). > Most any open sourse linux product can be compiled for darwin and X11. Might > be a little time consuming but...worse than I have already suffered? Most of > what I would need is included anyway. They _can_ be compiled but Darwin's X11 is nowhere near as smooth as X11 in a modern Linux. I played with fink for a while and eventually eviscerated it from my system because the apps simply worked that much more smoothly in native Linux. X11 has a place on my system still, but that's only because I have a Linux server on my network which I can use as an alternate 'desktop' using the server to run client software and display it on the X11 host under Mac OS X (I think I've got the client-host terminology right?). > At least the base system works perfectly out of the box on the hardware. > Language, Settings(come on, set the trackpad by editing configx file and > comand ine), cds, video, audio.... Agreed. OS X does 'out of the box' very well and maintains 'out of the box' functionality quite well (it's easy to change settings... of course, once you _really_ learn Linux it's even easier to change settings there but how many people are at that stage ;-). _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
