Why Yellowdog?

[James Cass]

> Another thing that Linux has over OSX
> is its speed and responsiveness.
Amen, brother.  I am a huge Apple fanatic, but MacOSX (Panther) can be 
sluggish, even on my AlPowerBook 1.5GHz with 1GB RAM.  It's VERY slothy 
when viewing network shares with thousands of files -- anything over 
1,000.  Where I work we have some shares with over twenty-thousand 
files.  I had to gui-fy shell commands (ls -la) using Revolution 
(http://www.runrev.com) j ust to view these files efficiently.

> PLUS Linux has tux racer :)
Hey, I just found this!  http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15548
It works great too.  Sweet!  Now I've got TuxRacer on MacOSX, YDL4, 
FedoraCore3, and WinXP!!

-James


On Jan 20, 2005, at 2:39 AM, Andrew Mason wrote:

> Well if you love OSX then use OSX. There are a lot of people who like 
> apple's
> hardware but don't like their OS. I don't like aqua, I feel it gets in 
> my way
> and i'd much rather use KDE, Gnome or XFCE over aqua. Also aqua isn't 
> network
> transparent, where as a DE that sits on top of X is. Another thing 
> that Linux
> has over OSX is its speed and responsiveness. You probably wont notice 
> it
> much on a g4 but on a g3 800 its a lot quicker to boot, to get into a 
> GUI, to
> use and app, and respond under load. If you use mainly aqua apps on 
> your mac
> then the reasons for running Linux aren't going to be as great either,
> however all of my favorite applications are X11 based and I don't want 
> to
> have to run X on top of aqua, then GTK/Qt apps on top of that. its a 
> waste of
> resources.
>
> PLUS Linux has tux racer :)
>
> hope you found this useful.
>
> Andrew
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:47 am, 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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