why not OS X?

[wmkruse]

But isn't it great that we have the choice... something "Uncle Bill"
would prefer we didn't have.

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 15:32, will taggart wrote:
> my question is: why use YDL at all if you have OS X and a New World Mac? =
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> am using my Linux partition less and less these days, in part because I h=
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> discovered how easy it is to acquire unix apps for OS X (The two great=20
> sources for BSD ports for OS X are http://fink.sourceforge.net and=20
> http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net). Fink makes installing new software so=
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> easy it is unbelievable. I have a friend with SuSE 8.0 and he wants fink =
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> himself...it is just simply so easy to use. Once I get my hands on a=20
> high-speed connection I will download X and a lot more apps and then...wh=
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> use Linux? In OS X i have no hardware problems, I can listen to my mp3s, =
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> could watch DVDs if I had a player, I have access to an exploding number =
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> bsd ports, text looks 1000% better on OS X (and this is important since I=
 am=20
> a writer/graduate student), my modem and ethernet work just fine, etc, et=
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> So what is the point? I personally hope that Jobs and co. release OS X x8=
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> and take over the world. But who asked me?
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> William C. Taggart
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> Department of Anthropology
> King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies
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> http://comp.uark.edu/~wtaggar
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