[TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (Your sins are forgiven)

[Roy Vestal]

Oh yeah,
 I like Macs. I just don't have one. :)

Plus there's always fink and opendarwin to look at for your book.

:)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marty Ferguson" <marty at rtmx.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:11 PM
Subject: RE: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (Your sins are forgiven)


> Ken,
>
> While on my 6 month gig at HP in Roseville,
> (project, IA64 Quad CPU, 96 Gig memory) I had the pleasure of
> meeting and spending time with one of HPs chief UNIX/Linux gurus.
> He has extensive knowledgable of all things 'NIX, and championed
> Mac OSX lineage systems.  He had one as his primary box
> at work (along with all of the other machines stuffed in his cube)
> and also had one at home with a large-screen LCD.
>
> Marty
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Ken Mink
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 10:47 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)
>
>
> I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much
> full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies
> in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer,
> having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful.
>
> For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main
> machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out
> as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse
> and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally
> the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same
> anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's
> different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an
> old friend. I just feel dirty.
>
> I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux
> distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy
> the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at
> work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that
> it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For
> now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere.
>
> I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work,
> but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end
> of an era.
>
> Ken
> -- 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
> " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it
> is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt
>
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