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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: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.

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