[PLUG] Wanted to Introduce Myself
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Wed Sep 22 19:21:15 UTC 2004
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Keely Willoughby wrote:
> Randal L. Schwartz == <merlyn at stonehenge.com> writes:
>
> Keely> Getting a brand new iBook soon & will be
> Keely> slapping Yellow Dog on it (can't wait as I love Yellow Dog)
>
> I don't understand the motivation here. iBooks come with a *fine*
> *usable* version of Unix already. All you'll be doing is creating
> yourself a world of hurt.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have used Linux on my Desktop Mac & a really, really old laptop & it ran perfectly.
> Less problems with install/setup/operation compared to the PC laptop I had.
>
> No world of hurt here...
>
> I know it seems a little unusual seeing as though it does come with a great UNIX system already there, but I know Linux,
> I like to be in control of my comptuer (I think this has already been mentioned) & Yellow Dog runs like a dream on an iBook too!
>
> Good to see some other Mac/Linux Users out there....I sometimes fear I am the only one.
OS X v.s. Yellowdog is an interesting question.
Both are good, but it really depends on what you want to run. Since there
are programs on Yellowdog to run OS X programs, it cover the best of both
worlds.
I have found a number of programs that do not build well on OS X or
require X. If using X was transparent to the user, then it would not be a
choice. I found using anything involving X on OS X to be a pain.
Possible, but not something "one click".
Perl apps, for the most part, built fine on OS X. (Except for the things
that expected you to be on a PC.) A number of things are still kind of
bjorken on OS X though. Kerberos and ldap, for example.
Either one is better than Windows, however.
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