Why Yellowdog?

[James Cass]

Joel -

I am a long-time Mac enthusiast/believer/user.  The overall positive 
outcome for me in using YDL4 is that it eased my introduction into 
RedHat/Fedora.  I've been using YDL since YDL3.  This past Christmas I 
bought a Shuttle XPC computer (http://www.shuttle.com) on which I now 
have Fedora Core 3 runnning (and WinXP).  But don't tell anyone abut 
WinXP.  ;-P   Actually, I guess you could say that Apple, via MacOSX, 
introduced me to the power and beauty of Unix (even though MacOSX is 
only "based" on BSD).

- James


On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Joel McCracken wrote:

> I've been a Linux fan since I've tried it. I really like its 
> flexibility and the power a user has over his operating system.
>
> I just recently bought an Ibook g4, and I've downloaded and installed 
> YDL 4. The sound didn't work as desired (I've been skimming this 
> mailing list for months, and I've seen how to fix it), and there isn't 
> support for airport extreme.
>
> Of course, Linux has its values. The ability to control your operating 
> system is second to none.
>
> My problem is, I love OSX. Some of it is closed source, which is fine, 
> but it is a quality OS, in my opinion. I don't have any pililosophical 
> differences with Apple. OSX is easy to use, but one can do a lot of 
> advanced things with it; my biggest joy is using gcc and vi.
>
> So, I guess my question is, why use Linux over OSX?
>
> Sorry if this has been discussed/answered before. Just flame me if it 
> has :)
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