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| DATE | 2006-05-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Balug-talk] [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Its a sorry day for The Linux Journal
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> Oh, so you disable the functionality, and consider it usable? Sounds
> like
> the typical linux desktop experience to me. Next you're going to
> espouse the
> virtues of OpenOffice to me?
>
This is a puzzle. Its Free Software. It works good. It has a billion languages.
When I read words like this, I relize that some people just can never be reached.
What can I say, some people said they were happy the Twin Towers were gone after
9-11 because they were ugly in the first place.
Proprietary software fanatics should be equally ignored in disgust.
Ruben
> > OS X a bastion of stability? Make me laugh, Michael. OS X "Panther"
> > 10.3.7[1] on my G3 iBook 2.2 can't even run Safari plus two
> > Terminal.app
> > windows and a PDF viewer without occasionally falling over -- not to
> > mention the pathetic modal dialogue prompting reboot of the machine
> > just because some non-kernel security upgrades have gone in. (Yes, I
> > do defeat that dialogue via Terminal.app and the kill command,
> > thanks.)
> >
>
> I've never used a G3 iBook, but then again, those are about 5 years old
> at this point. My G4 powerbook is plenty fast, where my typical
> working environment
> has about 30 Firefox tabs open, 15 Safari tabs open, 15-25
> Terminal.apps, mail.app,
> calendar.app, address book,MS Word, MS Excel, Fire, Colloquy, and
> iTunes. I shutter
> at the thought of doing this with Linux.
>
> > And that, sir, is why by preference I run Ubuntu Linux on it --
> > with, of
> > course, Window Maker.
> >
> > [1] No, no funny, non-stock software on OS X's pathetically preferred
> > case-insensitive HFS+ filesystem: I basically use the iBook as just a
> > terminal to get to my _real_ computers, and for its Web browsers.
>
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