From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 13 18:54:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A293437B424 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 18:54:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19228; Sun, 13 May 2001 19:53:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010513194802.0458fef0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:53:46 -0600 To: Jordan Hubbard , bzdik@yahoo.com From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Crap OS X Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010512130047Z.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010512192328.71978.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> <20010512041306.A87740@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010512192328.71978.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:00 PM 5/12/2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >...there are all sorts of "mac nuts" who'd like >things to stay exactly as they were. There are also a lot of OS/2 >nuts still out there who pine for the days of OS/2 and wish microsoft >would just come to their senses and stop doing Windows already. >There's even the remnants of the Amiga community who are still hoping >that AmigaOS will come back. > >At the same time, there also exist a large number of people who would >like progress to occur and refuse to have anything to do with all >these retro fanatics. :) What is ironic is that none of these are "retro" compared to Windows. I'm strongly considering getting an iBook just so that I can follow OS X, even if it's not perfect. I'm tired of the hardware compatibility problems I routinely experience when running UNIX-like OSes on Intel-based laptops.... And OS X would make it possible to run a good GUI and mainstream commercial GUI applications without risking the many problems caused by Windows emulation. Between MacOS and UNIX applications, I think I'd be a happy camper. Comments? --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message