Re: Good bye
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Les Mikesell wrote:
As an OS, I'd pick OS X as the best mix of unix compatibility, user
friendliness, and supplying everything you need, including patented
technology and vendor written drivers. But, it is tied to certain
hardware and apple likes to make you buy the same thing over again to
get minor upgrades so it won't work everywhere (although the $199 price
for a 5 machine home license for Leopard isn't horrible and it does run
across the G4 and Intel processor lines). If you ever did an upgrade on
a mac or used their included migration tool to move installed users and
applications to a new machine you'd understand why I rant about the
unfriendliness of fedora upgrades and updates. They even migrate
powerpc processor binaries to Intel hardware seamlessly when you
upgrade. So it's hard to buy the Linux claim that they can't keep an
interface stable from one day to the next even on a single processor line.
Have fun with OS X when the only machine that has any expansion slots is
their considerably overpriced pro tower. And when you buy that
considerably overpriced pro tower, have fun putting your existing PCI
cards into it.
Whoops! Just like they jacked users when they dropped scsi and serial
ports, now they've jacked users by dropping normal pci slots.
Also have fun with your third party sound cards when the OS updates -
due to their closed source nature, sometimes you have to wait months
before the vendor updates their drivers - even for the expensive high
end sound cards, like m-audio.
Of course, moving your expensive high end m-audio card into your new Pro
Tower will be kind of difficult, due to the complete lack of pci slots.
I guess with a hammer you might be able to make it fit ...
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