On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Vim Visual wrote: > Hi Woodchuck et al, > > I see you're a Woodchuck indeed! > > Nice to see there are people like you around... when I think that my > friends think I am a kind of wood chuck like you because I haven't run > windows for some seven years, I must laugh
I've never had windows on a computer, except for preinstalled NT long enough to overwrite it with something better. > Don't complain about pcs! Think of what people use to "work"! MacOSX, > for instance, that FreeBSD corrupted thing. Somebody brainwashed me > here at the Institute and told me I should ask for a Mac (the > institute provides us with a laptop to work) because it was like a > magic *nix box in which everything was working out of the box (of > course, propietary things work like that) and since I became father > recently I though "well, what the heck, let's try it, I don't want to > spend too many time with a machine and I prefer to spend it with my > child". "I took my new Mac out of the box and had it running in twenty minutes. It's now two years later, and I still don't know how it works." This was the Mac design goal, but it doesn't suit certain personality types. (You used to have to have a special tool (an oddly shaped probe/lever) even to open the case on the @#$% things.) > After two weeks I could not stand it any more and I installed > GNU/Linux on it because you will not believe it, but if you want a > MacOSX box running the normal-everyday applications, like zsh, tex, > gv, a DECENT TERMINAL you have to spend something like 40 times more > time than installing OBSD on a spectrum 48k... But still under > GNU/Linux many things were not working, among them the airport extreme > wlan card... and as I said, it's crucial for me... In any case it was > such a pain, sooooo slow, sooo noisy, so hot, so... that I gave it > back and asked for a glorious pc and got a fujitsu siemens lifebook > p7010 and I tell you something: it's the best laptop I've ever had. There are advantages to not using a Mac. I've used them, but only in the ancient days of 10MB hard drives. Way overpriced. > Now I want it running O'BSD! Hmmm. I wonder if the wlan will work with Open? > The O'bsd mailing list has been kind of frustrating... I was expecting > something miraculous but it's not much from what I get out of this > newbies list... They're not bad, but there's often a delay. Dave _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
