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Bill Joy on Linux and Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the pass-the-kool-aid dept.

(rfm)2 writes "In a Wired interview, Bill Joy mentions he just got a new dual 2GHz G5 Power Mac with 8 GB RAM and half a terabyte of internal disk. He is clearly underwhelmed by Linux: 'Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux.'"

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  1. ya.. well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a big fan of OSX.

    but; give me a dual 2ghz system, gb of ram, and a half tb or storage, and I'll love whatever it runs. I'd take DOS on a system like that.

  2. 8Gb RAM? by oberondarksoul · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does 'overkill' mean nothing to these people?

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    1. Re:8Gb RAM? by Pegasus · · Score: 2, Funny
      Oh, just try running OS X on 8gig box vs. 256mb or so one ... The difference in responsivness is tremendous. Remember that ram is an order of magnitude faster than hard disk.
      I would love to have that amount of memory for KDE desktop, but unfortunately i only have a gig and a half and am therefore 'forced' to use xfce :)

      Such is computing for the impatient ...

    2. Re:8Gb RAM? by nelsonal · · Score: 2, Funny

      To quote a true master of such things, "So, the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM. Bill Gates currently has over 743 billion 'megs' of RAM, and he still routinely feels the need to stuff a zucchini in his underwear."
      I just wonder how long it will be until that is a small amount of RAM. It's currently a large storage array, but even I can remember when computers with 1 Gig of storage were reserved for profitable purposes only.

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  3. I'm only 26, so... by vivekb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who's Bill Joy?

  4. Re:painful to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > two words: remote x windows session

    You can't count. Just a heads up.

  5. Re:In a sense, he's right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Media Access Control never innovates, it's not designed to. It's a hardware address for networking. Are you sure you aren't a moron? I'm not sure you aren't.

  6. Re:In a sense, he's right by somethinghollow · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I hear one more person saying how wonderful the Mac UI is i'm going to puke.

    The Mac UI is WONDERFUL! I make love to it, AND enjoy it!

    Come on. Puke! Puke! Puke like you drank a liter of vodka.

    Did it work?

  7. Re:In a sense, he's right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    """
    If I hear one more person saying how wonderful the Mac UI is i'm going to puke.
    """

    Oh dear C.G., you have to remember that some people, and higher primates, never evolved beyond the single mouse button...

    Maybe your fingers aren't fused together like a flipper, and you can actually use 3 buttons, but that's _just you_.