On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:57 -0700, Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote: 
>Just out of curiosity
>I use OS X with my PB, and I like it so much I am willing to pay for an
>upgrade or two.  However I have heard of people stripping off the OSX that
>came with their Mac in favor of PPC Linux.  My question is why; what do
>YellowDog, or Ubuntu offer that OS X does not? (Basically what am I missing
>out on)

Well, all the applications that I run work better on Linux.  I know that
I can run the whole X11 thing under OS X, but that sucks.  Things aren't
integrated, and just plain work poorly.  I still have never got fink
working right on an OS X box.

If I was going to use Mac OS X, I'd want to use all Mac OS X
applications -- and realistically, I don't have the money for that.  Mac
OS X applications for the functionality of GIMP, Inkscape,
OpenOffice.org and Evolution pretty much add up to about $1000 by
themselves.  That doesn't mention that I get free upgrades.

When I was looking for laptops I realized that all the applications that
I have were available as source, so I didn't care about processor
architectures.  I derived a few key requirements, and then started
looking.  The Apple Powerbook was the cheapest laptop that met my
requirements.  So, I'm not an Apple fan boy -- but I'm very happy with
my Powerbook.

		--Ted