why not OS X?

[will taggart]

my question is: why use YDL at all if you have OS X and a New World Mac? I 
am using my Linux partition less and less these days, in part because I have 
discovered how easy it is to acquire unix apps for OS X (The two great 
sources for BSD ports for OS X are http://fink.sourceforge.net and 
http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net). Fink makes installing new software so 
easy it is unbelievable. I have a friend with SuSE 8.0 and he wants fink for 
himself...it is just simply so easy to use. Once I get my hands on a 
high-speed connection I will download X and a lot more apps and then...why 
use Linux? In OS X i have no hardware problems, I can listen to my mp3s, I 
could watch DVDs if I had a player, I have access to an exploding number of 
bsd ports, text looks 1000% better on OS X (and this is important since I am 
a writer/graduate student), my modem and ethernet work just fine, etc, etc. 
So what is the point? I personally hope that Jobs and co. release OS X x86 
and take over the world. But who asked me?

William C. Taggart
Graduate Student, University of Arkansas
Department of Anthropology
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
annapaxis@hotmail.com
http://comp.uark.edu/~wtaggar


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