11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
1:26 p.m.
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Zane H. Healy wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> As one of the Penguin Crowd, I agree. The local linux user's
> group seems to be filled with people more interested in flashy
> gui stuff than understanding how the system works.
>
> Asking any kind of technical question of them usually meets with
> silence. I guess if I asked about configuring compiz or upping
> my FPS I'd get a lot of answers.
I'm a Linux user, and would rather use
Linux than Windows, my problem
is that I was born far too late and have been "spoiled" (more like
"corrupted") by "modern computing" (also known as MySpace and the
Pretty Picture Generators of Windows Aero and Compiz).
Of course, what passes for "modern computing" for the majority of the
population can easily be performed on an iPhone without anything
really missing. (In fact, most people could trade in their PCs for
iPhones and lose nothing)
An interesting way of looking at this would be to
voice my key
dislikes for the various OS's I currently use. OpenBeOS - Not sure
if that's the right name, but I really need to check out the
current state. Lack of user base.
Haiku is the name you're looking for.
IRIX - I wish it wasn't a dead end, as it is
really an amazing
OS and it ran on amazing hardware.
I always wanted to get a SGI box and try to run IRIX on it.
Zane
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