[OT] YDL 4.0

[Marcelo Giles]

I agree with you, Walt. Same thing I always wonder at. Why spend all 
that precious time chasing after the latest, fastest, newest, greatest 
software/hardware. If computers were used for what they were meant to 
be, ie tools, not just collectible items, we would be spending more 
time doing better things, creating, improving ourselves and those we 
care about.
On the positive side of things, I see that many of us here in the list 
and, thanks to Linux for PPC (distros aside), use "old" Macs, that 
otherwise would be just expensive landfill.
If we were doing what Apple expects from its customers, rushing to the 
AppleStore every time they come out with new "insanely great" hardware 
(every 6 months or so), we would be like everybody else out there in 
the crowd.
Fortunately, somebody has his feet on the ground!

Changing topics. I was about to buy this new Dual PowerMac G5, but I 
heard that I will have to wait till early 2005 to get "Tiger" and the 
30-inch flat monitor.I guess I'll have to settle for the 23-inch in the 
meantime. But I'm planning to buy a tent to camp outside the 
AppleStore. The moment they announce "Tiger" and the 30-inch in 
macrumors.com, I'll be the first in the line. Oh my, I can't hardly 
wait! :-)

On Jul 13, 2004, at 2:21 PM, Walt Pawley wrote:

> On 7/13/04 12:06 PM -0400, David Hacker wrote on Re: [OT] YDL 4.0
>
>> back to the flame war.
>
> My flame thrower keeps running out of fuel. The high prices, you 
> know...
>
>> The current Debian release was in December 2003 so it isn't that much
>> more current than YDL 3.0.1 which was release in November 2003.
>
> One things that's puzzled me for a LONG time is the constant scramble 
> to
> have everything be "current" all the time. Frankly, I much prefer to 
> get
> things done well and leave them alone for a long time before making
> changes. If you have real work to get done of your own using the
> computer(s) you're busy scrambling the OS code on, how do you get the 
> time
> to do it if you're constantly changing the OS and its supporting cast?
>
> -- 
> Walter M. Pawley <walt@wump.org>