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Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the don't-worry-jamie-we-won't-post-it dept.

iskander writes "After a disappointing experience with sound, Jamie Zawinski has finally given up on desktop Linux and switched to Mac OS X. The future of apps like xscreensaver and Gronk is now ``highly ambiguous''. He has already ditched a free/open platform before, but he seems a lot angrier this time. Indeed, twisted by the Dark Side of the Source, young Zawinski has become."

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  1. Bullshit by bobbis.u · · Score: 5, Informative
    Maybe he just got tired of fucking around with Linux. He got bored of having to trawl through "help" documents, fiddlying with config files and generally wasting time to achieve a second best result. He probably decided his time was worth the cost of buying a professional operating system that works. OK, so maybe he can't now reconfigure the colour of the drop shadow on the mouse pointer, but he clearly doesn't care about that.

    Also, he doesn't really care what the Linux crowd thinks, which is why he posted the remark about Slashdot.

  2. Re:Who the hell is Jamie Zawinski by prodangle · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.jwz.org/hacks/

    "Back before you had heard of Netscape, I was responsible for the Unix versions of Netscape Navigator through release 1.1."

    "Before Netscape, I was primarily to blame for Lucid Emacs"

    "...I was one of the folks who created and ran the Mozilla Organization during the first year of its life"

    "But now I've taken my leave of that whole sick, navel-gazing mess we called the software industry. Now I'm in a more honest line of work: now I sell beer."

  3. Re:From TFA by RonnyJ · · Score: 4, Informative
    It's pretty evident that the editor actually managed to read at least some of this article, as the following line shows:

    from the don't-worry-jamie-we-won't-post-it dept.

  4. Re:Sounds like a hardware problem to me... by harlows_monkeys · · Score: 4, Informative
    Hard to hear you say that (I heard this on Slashdot, alas). I heard you had problems with sound cards in Linux. However, I do belive you may have the same problems with MacOS X -- you can't play two sounds at once

    I don't know where you got that notion, but it is wrong. Right now, for example, my OS X system is playing music in iTunes, environmental sounds from World of Warcraft, and my terminal can beep, as can my email program when I receive a mail.

  5. Howto: Make linux work properly on the Desktop by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Get SuSE.
    Get an SB Live! Value or an SB Audigy! Value.
    Get an Nvidia Geforce(1/2/3/4) MX or not video card.
    Use an ACX110/111 802.11g wireless card.

    Done.

    Hardware audio mixing, all the drivers will auto-install. An almost Mac OS X-like experience, and certainly much easier than Windows.

    --
    WhiteWolf666 an exBush supporter. All you new-school,compassionate,save the children Republicans can rot in hell
  6. Re:Sound by dozer · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because it adds significant latency. It's pretty much impossible to sync audio and video when the audio is going through artsd. Thank goodness the KDE guys are finally ditching this afwul program. Saves me the trouble of turning it (and esd) off on every new Linux install.

  7. Re:Who the hell is Jamie Zawinski by Electrum · · Score: 4, Informative

    If he has indeed been messing around with Linux for long enough to be prominent in development/maintenance of xscreensaver (I haven't checked this) or XEmacs

    jwz wrote xscreensaver, Lucid Emacs, Netscape Mail and News 2.0 to 3.0 and the original UNIX versions of Netscape Navigator.