OS X to Linux transition - Help needed!

[Chris Ruprecht]

On Friday 28 June 2002 12:06 am, David Dahl wrote:
> I just converted from OS X (on my TiBook), but, only for development.  =
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> still plan on using iMovie, iPhoto, etc
> I am using Ximian Evolution for email, I did not even try to convert my
> mail boxes.

Well, I would like to keep my email. I have been able so far to keep=20
everything over the years from Eudora 2.1.4 on MacOS 7.5 until now - a fe=
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100 MB in mail messages. I could try and figure out how to set up an IMAP=
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server on my big Linux box and move everythig over.

And - hmm dual boot kind of drives me up the wall - the file you need alw=
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happens to be on the other system's partition, the one you just can't get=
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right now ...

> You can use MacOnLinux for quicktime playback.

Uhmm - I tried that a while back, on a PowerBook Pismo and it was rather =
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and unstable (YDL 2.1).

>
> I am really glad i switched, the speed boots is amazing!  I am adjustin=
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> to Quanta 2 from BBEdit, but i do miss BBEdit.

I believe so. I'm currently running RedHat 7.3 on a company notebook (Ace=
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600 MHz) and the machine is just so much faster then this stupid MacOS X.=
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HATE MacOS X - I just don't want to live without the very good applicatio=
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which are out there for it.

And of course, BBEdit - how could I forget? I use vim extensively on Linu=
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and I really like vim - but there is no substitue for "Open from FTP serv=
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Can't we convince BareBones to port it to Linux?


Best regards,
Chris