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A Power Users Look at Linux on the Mac
An anonymous reader writes "Even though most Linux users have treated Linux as an operating system for their x86 white boxes, Linux runs equally well on PowerPC machines. This article looks at Linux on the PowerPC and the appealing range of PPC machines produced by Apple, where the option of using Linux is of great value to many users."
IBM should make some g5 PPC systems aimed specifically at linux. If they're cheap enough I'd buy one.
True genius is grasping a situation like a peice of fruit, and peircing it just right so that it drains dry.
Next time try locate filename. It's a wee bit faster.
You know you've been brainwashed by Intel's marketing when you still believe that the primary reason to buy a system should be based on the raw processing power that it provides in certain benchmarks.
The sooner we can all stop obsessing about benchmarks and Ghz and start putting quality of software first the better.
I'm forced to use Windows at work and I used to run Debian at home, but the level of quality and flexibility of the software that comes with the Mac is simply streets ahead in my opinion. I'm going to be a Mac user for a long time to come. I don't mind paying 150 pounds a year to keep 3 Macs at the latest level when the software is this good. I've saved that much in time alone not having to tinker with anything, which is how a home system should be for a sysadmin in my opinion.
I haven't been this creative since the Amiga/Atari ST days, simply because I'm not messing about under the hood so much.