Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:09:19 10/12/02
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On October 12, 2002 at 06:39:50, George Sobala wrote:
>On October 11, 2002 at 22:59:40, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
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>>I would not say I like Linux that much. It's still a little bit too difficult.
>>
>
>Well - you sound more and more like an ideal Mac OS/X customer! It's easy on the
>surface and there is all that raw Unix power under the hood. You can mix and
>match free (as in speech) software such as X, xboard and scid with the
>proprietary stuff. According to Google stats, hits from Macs are 4% of total,
>Linux only 1% at present. Apple PR claims that OS/X is now "the most popular
>Unix desktop in the world".
>
>To give you perspective of where I come from to make such comments, there are 6
>computers in my house: three run Linux (though one is just functioning as a
>broadband router), and one of the Linux systems also continually runs Win/NT4
>within a VMWare virtual machine (and camps on ICC running CT15 as "redshift").
>One runs Win98SE (for the kids), a laptop runs Win/XP, and there is an iMac-G4.
>So I do have multi-OS experience. Go iMac!
Excellence is not the only criteria for my choice.
Windows XP is apparently not that bad, and MacOS/X might even be better.
But Linux is still the only way out I think.
Christophe
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