why not OS X?[II] or I love linux...

[will taggart]

The point I was trying to get at, and maybe I am not making myself clear, is 
that all of the Unices, including Linux and OS X are so similar and so much 
better than the crap that Microsoft puts out, why advocate one over another? 
I am not simply a grandmother that wants to use AOL to talk to her 
relatives. I want to be able to use UNIX apps like nmap, pico, dsniff, 
tcpdump, and the GIMP. I enjoy using Linux and all the Unices. But to me, 
they are basically all the same and learning the intricacies of BSD and 
Linux has been a rewarding experience.

BTW: does anyone know how to modify the screen that appears right after the 
boot options (LILO) and before all of the initialization scripts? I have 
been hunting for that and I can't find it.

But anyway, if you are going to use Linux as your primary OS, why not use an 
x86 box instead of a PPC one? I feel like I am a third-world computer user 
when I see my friends running SuSE 8.0, which is better than any Linux I 
have ever seen. It makes me want an x86 system in addition to my Mac. And 
for all the admins out there x86 hardware is much more abundant and cheaper. 
I don't see the advantage of using a PPC machine for Linux, although I 
consider Apple hardware some of the best.

I will continue to use Linux on my machine, and I enjoy it, but until my 
modem and sound work and I get text that looks and feels great it will be a 
secondary, experimental system for me.

will

PS: OS X does not seem slow to me (on a TiBook 550 w/ 256M RAM).



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