Is it worth it?

[Rob LeFebvre]

I run YDL on a G3 300, as well as OS X. I've got Linux running on a 6 gig
partition, and I run osx on the other partition. I dual boot because Linux
is such a tricky environment for my mac-head brain, that in order to get
work done, I need os x. Otherwise, YDL runs great. KDE and Gnome start up
fast, the browsers and email clients work as fast or faster than comparable
software on os x. It's a lot of fun. Feel free to email me off list if you'd
like more info.

Rob


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Rob LeFebvre
Geek
http://www.idesignerworld.net


On 1/24/03 6:43 AM, "Gregory Allen-Anderson" <barrysbeau@myway.com> wrote:

> 
> I don't even qualify as a newbie, still a wannabe!  I am considering
> installing linux on my IMac 500 with 512 ram slot loading (anything else
> important for you to know?)
> 
> I have been playing with KDE and Gnome and related apps under Darwin, and most
> of them work fairly well, but they are awfully slow.  Even browsing the web
> seems very slow compared to OSX (and thats no speed demon on a G3).  I assume
> this is partly because I am running the unix gui on top of OSX.
> 
> I am not a programmer, don't want to be, but do like playing around with
> things now and then.  So two questions before I reformat my drive.
> 
> Is this sluggishness not present when running under linux?
> 
> Is it stable enough to work out of the box?  I want to twiddle with it because
> I want to not because I have to, and frequently I have to do work on the
> computer, and at those times need it to work period no fussing.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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