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? Too slow? Thanks in advance! -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net
Hey everyone, I am a bit of a lurker on the list but I have a couple of questions regarding Pine and Qpopper. First with Pine I am having a very strange problem and I am wondering if others have seen this. I have sendmail configured to work with virtual hosts (two domains) and I am masquerading. When I use /bin/mail or connect via a pop3 client and send a mail out masquerading woks fine. But when I use pine the mail sent is not masqueraded and the full hostname is used. Any ideas? Is it a problem with pine? The second question I have concerns qpopper and how it is configured by default. Is it using APOP or just plain text by default. Or is it using both? Thanks Benjamin
Oh yeah, I use OS X for my workstation in which I ssh to my SuSE PPC server and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set the terminal so when I am working with yast2 the delete or del keys work and for yast how to get the function keys past f4 to work.. I have a apple pro keyboard if the helps. Thanks Benjamin
Hm, I use OS X on a first generation iBook (300 MHz, 288 MB RAM), and it works fine, a little bit slow at times, though. However fast enough to accomplish my correspondence, a little Java programming with BlueJ and such. Hm, I could do with a bit more speed of BlueJ, but as it's written in Java, I suppose I can hardly ask for more. ;) What is a PW 550 anyway? Mac OS X seems to me neater, more of one piece. The technics are better disguised, but you can access them still. But then again, OS X seems to me more complicated with respect to making settings by the shell (clearly not intended by Apple). Gruss Thiemo -- Thiemo Kellner Tösstalstrasse 146 CH-8400 Winterthur
I use both at work and home. There's some stuff you can do in one you can't do in the other, ie run X11/Gnome/KDE apps on the latest Apple hardware under OSX (have to wait for the latest Xfree to support Nvidia), on the other hand, on Linux, it's great when your doing internet services, or programming, but it doesn't have all the desktop apps I want/need. Now the question is, which will support the other missing portions better in the near future? How well will it run on my hardware? How much will it cost me? For me, it's a mixed bag of answers. On my latest hardware, OSX is brisk and responsive, I've almost gotten completely rid of my dependence on Classic altogether, and I believe soon that XFree86 will let me run all I want from the OSS side also. On my older hardware, OSX may or may not run, but Linux does well, I don't need it to run all my desktop apps, but I do have them running critical stuff 24/7, and they are just humming along. They use free software, (free as in speech, not free as in beer) that I enjoy supporting, and has free upgrades usually faster than what I need. Why fix this if it ain't broke? Last question/answer I'll leave out there is why do you want to do OSX or Linux, do you want less hassle, and don¹t really care what's under the hood, or do you like to tinker, or is there that just needed app that's on one or the other? There's other questions that are similar to the ones above, the answers will say what's right for you. Dave Gomez
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 brocken22@gmx.de 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."
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