[OFB Cafe] New Laptop... A Report

[Fred A. Miller]

Timothy Butler wrote:
>>>
>>>    That's what Ubuntu and it's 20,000 packages are for... :-P
>>
>> Someone has to like it, but it's not me. ;)
> 
> 
>     I like it, though not as well as the Mac. But it learns good lessons
> from the Mac -- not the first being producing a really excellent
> installer on a live disc, just as Apple has done since the beginning of
> the Mac, I'm fairly certain.

Yes......MAC installs are nice. Ubuntu isn't bad, for an installer, but
I find Yast MUCH better.

>     But when you can use real, certified (yet Free Software based) UNIX
> with the most beautiful interface of any OS and the best array of
> software compatibility of any OS on the best engineered hardware...
> well, how can one resist? :-P

Ah........here we are again...a moral question everyone has to answer
for themselves. And, I answered it sometime ago by not buying a MAC,
just like I've made the same decision in not paying for MickySoft.

Fred

-- 
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up
homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." Thomas Jefferson, 1802