[UFO Chicago] debian woody on an imac rev. b -- success!

[Crow Leader]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter A. Peterson II" <pedro@tastytronic.net>
To: <ufo@tastytronic.net>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] debian woody on an imac rev. b -- success!


> Quoting Nate Riffe:
> > Just now Crow Leader made 15 LEDs in my apartment flash with this:
> > >
> > > just install OS X
> >
> > K IM BLOKIN U NOW
>
> Ok... have we all entered our cranky winter stupor or something? This
> is ridiculous.
>
> Anyway, to answer to your suggestion that I should "just install OS
> X," there are several reasons why that was not a preferable solution.
>
> 1. Money. I'm not going to buy or pirate OS/X.

The no upgrade discount from 10.x to 10.2 Jaguar is shitty at best. It's too
bad, apple lost out on the second sale all together.

> 2. Memory. This iMac doesn't have as much RAm as OS/X wants.

RAM is close to free these days. Using memory to shim a door or crooked
appliances is not too bad of an idea.

> 3. CPU power. This is only a 233 G3 PPC. Reports are that OS/X is a
> dog on it, pretty much even if you turn off the bells and whistles.
> 4. Challenge. I wanted to do something unique.

Listening to word on the street about os X performance is quite original.

> 5. Customization.
> 6. Freedom. As much as I respect OS/X for what it is, it is not
> sufficiently free for my tastes.

It's an OS, remember abstraction between software and hardware. What is the
problem with it's "freeness?"

> There -- 6 ways (i'm sure there are some more) where GNU/Linux is a
> better solution than OS/X would have been.

What was the problem you are solving again? We may be on different pages
here.

KEN