Hmmm While I agree with Fink, I must admit. However, OpenOffice and GIMP run
quite well on my laptop (Actualy they run better then on my PC which has a
faster processor), but I use the intigrated X11 extentions insted of running
an X11 desktop... But allways in search of increased speed I will Try Ubunto
on my laptop and see if it is really faster (I need to redo my system for
clasic suport so it would be aa good time to try it out as a dule boot )
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ted Gould wrote:
> 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
>
>
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