Author: Alan Gore Date: Subject: YMMV, but MY Linux desktop stinks
> I am *seriously* considering getting a G4 putting yellow dog on it and > running mac4linux on top of it. Has anyone attempted to do this. Does
> this work nicely for you?
>
> To me, running Linux on a Mac would be like buying a Ferrari, then
> dropping a Chevy engine into it.. The great thing about OS X is that
> on the Unix side as on the Aqua side, everything just WORKS. It
> supports all the features of the machine without my taking three weeks
> out of my life fussing with drivers. It has a really nice X11
> implementation that runs on the GUI and lets me integrate apps like
> Open Office with the OS X native applications.
I do run an RH9 partition on one of my PC's, an IBM R50. I have no
problems with the desktop or with setting up - it's just that when I
want to do something serious in Unix, it's always so much easier to
reach for the Mac. In fact, what I'm doing right at the moment is
testing an Apache/MySql project on the Mac while using Windows XP on my
R50 - the same one that has the RH9 partition - to edit the PHP scripts
in Dreamweaver MX.