Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mbnet.mb.ca>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> In article <390DF10D.D4CFBF3B@dcnet2000.com>,
> Phoenyx  <quazar@dcnet2000.com> wrote:
> 
> > Paul Schlyter wrote:
> >
> >> So you say you're never going to change (no matter what happens?).
> >> And you're not interested in Windoze, Unix or BeOS....
> >>
> >> Then could you please tell me *what* OS *are* you interested in?
> >> Mac-OS of course .... any others at all?  No?  Why not?
> >>
> >> "The Macintosh isn't a computer -- it's a religion"
> >
> > In all of this, Linux is not mentioned.
> 
> ..and neither is Free-BSD.... however Unix was mentioned.
> 
> > It is so easy to set it up with out the complexities of the *nix
> > command line. Xfree86 GUI is the accepted standard in many *nix
> > compatible OS's.
> 
> Yeah I know -- I fought a lot with that on my old '486 some years
> ago: installing the commandline parts of UNIX worked fine, however
> whenever I tried to get X up and running, very weird things happened
> to my graphics adapter.  It appeared that Linux simply was unable to
> recognize the chipset, even if I attempted VGA mode.  Eventually I
> gave up getting X to work.

	Try it on a newer machine with the newer versions. Corel, Mandrake, and
RedHat all have graphic installers. On my machine RedHat autodetected
just about everything. I was off and running within two minutes of
finishing the install.
 
> > This is probably the most configurable GUI available
> > and Linux itself runs on a variety of platforms including some Mac's.

	Depending on the version though. You do have to put in a bit of thought
selecting which version you want on which platform.

	To bring this thread back to the Apple//... I wonder if any thought has
been given to making GNO/ME independant of GSOS?

				Later
				Mike




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