Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (95 mails)

[Janus Sandsgaard <janus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 brocken22@xxxxxx wrote:

> I'd like to buy a new PW 550 and so I'm interested what are the
> reasons for using suse ppc or yellowdog-linux etc. Do you have old
> hardware that it's not fulfilling the huge hardware-needs of OSX or
> are there other reasons. What is your impression of working with OSX?

I run Linux 97 pct. of the time 
Why not OSX? Or Classic MacOS? 
It's a combination of different things: 
 
OSX is impressive. No doubt about that: You have a great looking
userinterface with the possibilities of running Free Software /
GNU-programs side by side with Photoshop, MS-Word or whatever you like (or
need) from the non-free world. And with "Fink" using Debians packagesystem
it's easy to install new software.
 
But... 
 
I prefer Gnu/Linux over OSX because of 1) The concept of Free Software (as
a political project), 2) The combination of Gnu/Linux and KDE (or whatever
desktop you choose) beat OSX in performace. 3) Programs I like are
maintained on Linux. 4) I have worked a lot with Linux lately, and
whenever I boot in OSX or Classic I miss something.... virtual desktops,
the look of the menus in LyX or something.. 5) Gnu/Linux is sexy and have
a great community.
 
I guess I'm a strong believer in Free Software... :-) 
..and no.... SuSE don't pay me! ;-) 

-j

I have a PowerBook "Pismo": 
G3-400 MHz.  
640 mb ram. 

-- 
"Only whimps use tape backup: real men just save their
important stuff unencrypted and let NSA mirror it."