I was in the same boat you are in now and I chose the ibook, it's sweet, but I also needed to program for the intel platform. I bought a second machine ( a beefy workstation ) and I rdesktop into that fullscreen to do my programming. It works very great even over a wan if the bandwitdh is there. Get the ibook you won't regret it.
Microsoft's intentions were good -- get everybody using the same runtime environment and libraries, but their execution was poor,.net was surrounded by a cloud of "what is it?" and "how does it work?". They should have spent more time explaining what it is and how it works and less on "look it's like magic".
The Big Difference may not be the out and out raw speed of the hardware but I'm betting that in conjunction with their new 64 bit OS it will scream and I don't know of any other company putting out a 64 OS to the desktop.
I am a hardcore linux/bsd guy, when I ran from M$ about 6 years ago, I ran as far as I could go, I've ran every distro of linux under the sun( RedHat,Mandrake,Debian, Slack, even LFS ) and any "free" version of unix I could get my hands on ( Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD),by the way I didn't mention Gentoo because it is in a class all it's own, and then a friend let me borrow his powerbook, needless to say I'm writing this on my own ibook. In the end we will always have wars of "Who has the biggest and badest OS around" and in the end it doesn't really matter as long as it's not Microsoft. Sorry BIGHEAD no soup for you.
I've been using and programming in Bash for years and yes some of the features like history and tab completion are cool but the real power is in the scripting. I use bash scripts everywhere: backups,parsing files, logging greps to e-mail and in conjunction with numerous other languages that need access to the "system". the true power is in the language that comes with the shell.
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Well that's great I just finished gettting my 2.2 kernel working and now this
In a related article wozniak plans on patending the personal computer. I know I'll get modded -- Come and get me.
I was in the same boat you are in now and I chose the ibook, it's sweet, but I also needed to program for the intel platform. I bought a second machine ( a beefy workstation ) and I rdesktop into that fullscreen to do my programming. It works very great even over a wan if the bandwitdh is there. Get the ibook you won't regret it.
Microsoft's intentions were good -- get everybody using the same runtime environment and libraries, but their execution was poor, .net was surrounded by a cloud of "what is it?" and "how does it work?". They should have spent more time explaining what it is and how it works and less on "look it's like magic".
You Suck, Why Don't you just tell me how lord of the rings ends as well.
The Big Difference may not be the out and out raw speed of the hardware but I'm betting that in conjunction with their new 64 bit OS it will scream and I don't know of any other company putting out a 64 OS to the desktop.
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
Dennis Ritchie.
I am a hardcore linux/bsd guy, when I ran from M$ about 6 years ago, I ran as far as I could go, I've ran every distro of linux under the sun( RedHat,Mandrake,Debian, Slack, even LFS ) and any "free" version of unix I could get my hands on ( Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD) ,by the way I didn't mention Gentoo because it is in a class all it's own, and then a friend let me borrow his powerbook, needless to say I'm writing this on my own ibook.
In the end we will always have wars of "Who has the biggest and badest OS around" and in the end it doesn't really matter as long as it's not Microsoft. Sorry BIGHEAD no soup for you.
No it doesn't. It even says it doesn't in the online FAQ.
Does Anyone know also if there's any good open source backup solutions for tape libraries? Don't say Amanda, it doesn't span tapes.
I've been using and programming in Bash for years and yes some of the features like history and tab completion are cool but the real power is in the scripting. I use bash scripts everywhere: backups,parsing files, logging greps to e-mail and in conjunction with numerous other languages that need access to the "system". the true power is in the language that comes with the shell.
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Does anyone know if xfree provides the framebuffer support for the kernel ?? I am looking for framebuufer support for nvidia.