Back in 87 when I used to play with Yggdrasil Linux, Kernel .81 something not many people really knew what all that stuff was, let alone the Internet. My G4 is running OS 10 which is essentially a hacked version of BSDI or similar. Funny how everyone thinks it's "godly" and yet it is really what we have all been running for decades, minus the multiprocessor kernel and Xwindows. But I like the fact that going to a Unix kernel has made a much more stable OS for Mac. FreeBSD and BSDI are still my favorites but I needed other apps for my Pic processors. I guess I could still dual-boot.
I once heard a saying by (I think it was Linus Torvalds dunno): "He who sacrifices functionality for ease of use, gets neither, and deserves neither" How true. But I won't give up my Mac so easily. I just put over $2500 into it for god sakes! = ) Tad 02 +1100, you wrote: >Well all I can say is that I have a PC built from economical Asian parts, & >it never crashes. Occasionally it gets turned off (maybe once in 3 months) >due to Lightning (as I am in the country) but otherwise it never needs >resetting. Very occasionally a program will crash, but this never requires >resetting the system. Even installing software never requires a reset. > The reason I get this reliability is that I run NO Microsoft (or > similar Co) >software. Yes, I run Linux, & have done so for over 2 years. > Do I miss all those commercial programs? Not any more. I have found > public >licenced S/w to replace all that I ever used on my previous commercial O/s. I >also run NO antivirus program. (not needed as there are a minimal number of >Linux viruses around (Yes, this may change later, but it is true at present.) > For the curious I run Mandrake distribution on my Workstation, > currently >8.2, but shortly 9.0 . I run Debian on a local server as a file store, and a >great program/system on my firewall (an old Pentium 150, 24M, 200M hdd) >called IPCop. > IPCop is recommended as a firewall - it takes about 20 minutes to > set up on >an old Klunker, then is managed with a browser off the slave machine. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home for Top $ http://us.click.yahoo.com/RrPZMC/jTmEAA/jd3IAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
