Why YDL? Why Linux? Why YDL instead of OS X? :)

[John van Vlaaderen]

In a word -- I have to reboot the window manager constantly.

Also, it isnt BSD, it a highly perverted version.

I cant put linux on this box because I cant resize the partitions.

Yet another reason.

John


On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 09:45 AM, rjgoos@ydl.net wrote:

>
> Perhaps an odd set of questions.  I belong to a small Mac club, and the 
> members
> know I'm fooling around with YDL on an old PM 7200, so I imagine it's 
> only a
> matter of time before I'm asked to demonstrate YDL at a club meeting.
>
> I'm sure I'd be asked...why mess around with YDL, since OS X is now 
> BSD-based?
> I've got one answer:  runs on several pre-G3 machines...but what else 
> could I
> offer?  Why would anyone use YDL, for example, on an iMac, since OS X is
> available?
>
> As for me, I am experimenting with YDL on this old 7200 simply to get 
> myself
> introduced to the world of Linux/Unix, on a machine that has no other 
> purpose.
> If I screw something up and accidently erase the hard drive...nothing 
> lost but
> time.  I wouldn't dare experiment with my iMac at work, or my wife's 
> iMac here at
> home.
>
>
> Jay
>
>
>
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