I find it sad and a little pathetic that the tools are more important than the use. But, that's why the Linux community can't get their act together and really challenge MS for the Desktop.
For Example
there are many small groups, organizations and not for profits working with children and adults with special needs. They don't have or can't spend the money for technology since most of their funding is earmarked for specific purposes. If open source was ever to be useful or productive outside of IBM this is it. But, to be really useful it needs to be at least as "easy" as an NT server ( said as an example I've set up too many NT servers to believe it ). I know the tools, which is exactly why I don't have time to sit and twiddle with them for a basic set up. Most of these groups have an adhoc network, or no network just individual computers. I want to bang together a server and spend the rest of my time setting up the Humans who need to use it. I'd rather regenerate old Mac hardware because a IIci will give me more than a 386. Even on Intel there is a lack of fast and easy distros of Linux. I can buy a Cobalt or some other Linux appliance and get this simplicity, why isn't there a distribution that lets me put that on my choice of hardware?
Whining about the lack of one-click Unix server install on old wierd Mac
hardware is just stupid and a pollution of the internet. You are so lucky
that the Open Source people bothered porting any software to your Mac at all. Apple told you to go screw yourself, and still refuses to release source code
or documentation for the hardware they have abandoned.
Ok, the point has been firmly driven in the ground, I will take my leave.
You may get an idea of the pain of porting Linux to the Macintosh by reading Alan Cox's story:
http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/docs/macpaper.php
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