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On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:54:41 +0000 Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I must admit I do like OS X although my iMac G3 isn't up to running it I can tell you why that happens! I used to run OSX but like Matt, I dumped it. I now run Debian on my iBook and it's fantastic. Mac OSX isn't an OS: it's a layer cake. OS9 lies underneath, there's a BSD/OSX layer on top of that then there's X. That's why on my 30Gb iBook, a *default* OSX install took over 13Gb!!!!! Debian? 6Gb. > at any decent sort of speed. With the Mac range going over to x86 CPU's > eventually the PPC owners are going to have to either upgrade their Macs > to x86 Macs, stick with what they have or look at alternatives. The alternative is Debian - Yellow Dog is, sadly, way behind the times. > I keep reading/hearing that we're a community and we should be doing > what we can. Some of us can't code but we sure can talk lots about our > favorite OS :-) Then write some documentation . . . . Programmers write bad documentation (and I freely admit that some of that is mine) because other things get in the way.
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