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multiple virtual terminals. in linux, you can have multiple terminals & |
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multiple X sessions. OS X 10.3 will be adding multiple aqua sessions, but I |
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don't know if you can have multiple x sessions (Which you would want if you |
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were running OS X in console mode without aqua as you mention) |
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also, this doesn't really apply to a laptop, but gentoo is much easier to |
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configure start up services. I wouldn't want to set up apache, exim, nfs |
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server, cvs pserver, imap server, etc., on OS X, I know it can be done but |
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it's much more difficult & less flexible than gentoo (the virtual runlevels |
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are just icing on the cake) |
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I agree with someone's point about filesystems. though hfs+ can be journaled |
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now, it's still not as fast & robust as reiser or even ext3. I've gotten data |
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corruption in OS X WITH JOURNALING twice in 6 months, but in YEARS of using |
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linux, even when developing a kernel module & crashing the kernel every 5 |
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minutes, I've only gotten data corruption once. |
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there is a tradeoff between linux & OS X: OS X gives you consistency, linux |
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gives you control. there is practically nothing in linux you can't tweak. but |
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in OS X, especially in the gui, you get things the way apple wants. I've |
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gotten used to the apple paradigm now. but I still find it extremely awkward |
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to switch between more than 2 apps quickly. I'm reduced to clicking in the |
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dock. expose will have me clicking on a thumbnail instead of clicking on the |
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dock, not much help. do you know of a good way to easily interact with |
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exactly 3 apps at the same time? (mail, safari, and terminal is an example |
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set of apps I use together a lot) |
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here's a purely gui thing: I never quite trust OS X's drag & drop, so I avoid |
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it. sometimes it doesn't work, or doesn't do what I expect. at least KDE asks |
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me what to do whenever there's an ambiguity. |
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oh wait, I forgot though, I can go to a console in OS X, run an aqua-less |
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xsession, and kde :D |
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I am excited about gentoo/OS X, then I can dump fink for when I'm in OS X. I |
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never bothered to learn apt, I already know portage inside & out, the only |
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apt commands I know are 'apt-get install' and 'apt-get remove' |
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does anybody know a good replacement for stat(1) in OS X? fink doesn't seem to |
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have it in fileutils. I miss it a lot, I'm always wanting to know file access |
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times. (don't ask me why right now, but it's a recurring irritant in OS X). |
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so that's another linux advantage. |
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plus my work is an internal project with linux as a target, so I can use |
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gentoo on my ibook to do real work, the project currently doesn't fully |
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compile in OS X |
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On Saturday 12 July 2003 11:57 am, james toy wrote: |
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> You guys I have a question cause I do... Well what is the advantage of |
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> linux on a powerbook g4 867 rather than mac os x they are basically the |
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> same thing you can even leave aqua and just use xwindows what is the |
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> “linux” difference that I should use gentoo as opposed to mac os x cause I |
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> have both |
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> -jt |
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