Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 January 19 Saturday 02:42:23 PM -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: > Um, that's not a religious decision. It's about freedom. I guess you > wouldn't understand since you're OK with whatever Apple puts out. In that case I guess religion goes both ways. Similarly to what Michael points out t

Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread Michael L Torrie
justin wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 3:10 PM, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jonathan Ellis wrote: >>> On 1/19/08, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged av

Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread justin
On Jan 19, 2008 3:10 PM, Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > On 1/19/08, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the > >> efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged available for > >>

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2008-01-19 Thread Michael L Torrie
Justin Findlay wrote: > On AD 2008 January 19 Saturday 01:03:40 PM -0700, Alex Esplin wrote: >> Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the >> efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged available for >> linux is available for OSX. A couple that weren't available

Anyone use this yet?

2008-01-19 Thread Steve
I'm considering getting rid of some older stuff I have laying about and stumbled upon http://www.secondrotation.com/ Has anyone used them before? Sincerely, Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread Michael L Torrie
Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On 1/19/08, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the >> efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged available for >> linux is available for OSX. > > Have you actually used both fink and, say, apt

Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread Jonathan Ellis
On 1/19/08, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the > efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged available for > linux is available for OSX. Have you actually used both fink and, say, aptitude recently? Fink sucks. I

Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread Justin Findlay
On AD 2008 January 19 Saturday 01:03:40 PM -0700, Alex Esplin wrote: > Your second argument kind of trumps your first one. Thanks to the > efforts of fink and/or macports, almost every packaged available for > linux is available for OSX. A couple that weren't available as > binaries work very wel

Re: Linux laptops, revisited (can any sleep like my PowerBook does?)

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Esplin
On Jan 18, 2008 11:40 PM, Justin Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is interesting you say this. My experience is exactly opposite. > Linux does all I want and more (in the way I want it to) whereas Macs > aren't as fun/easy to use. The concept of a distro with updates and a > universe of pa