Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Thread NDPTAL85
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Mike Settle wrote: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. Have you actually been reading the emails? This entire

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:30:17 -0600 Mike Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. no disrespect meant, but the

Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-13 Thread Brian Durant
You trivialise the issue. Drivers are supposed to be written by hardware manufacturers (who actually know what the hardware is about), not by software/OS designers (who must reverse engineer the hardware to know how it works). Yes, you are of course correct in this, but I don't feel that I am

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:57:07 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You trivialise the issue. Drivers are supposed to be written by hardware manufacturers (who actually know what the hardware is about), not by software/OS designers (who must reverse engineer the hardware to know how it