Re: [News] More on Mac-to-Linux Defections

[Donn Miller <hackr_d@xxxxxxxxx>]

flatfish+++ wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:58:52 -0400, Donn Miller wrote:
>
> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > > Why I ditched my Mac for Linux
> > Why ditch anything for Linux?  Why not use it in conjunction with Linux? 
> >   For example, Linux had been running on Mac/ppc for like eons now, so I 
> > feel there are plenty of people dual-booting MacOS-Linux.  I still want 
> > to check out Darwin a little.  It has me curious, as it features the 
> > Mach kernel running in conjunction with BSD.
>
> That's because you, Donn are reasonable.
> Most people are reasonable.
>
> COLA nuts, for the most part, are NOT reasonable.
> It's Linux and open source or nothing for some of these jokers.
>
> Some will accept things like BSD and even to a small extent OSX, but it's
> really a front they are putting up by pretending to accept those operating
> systems.
>
> After all, in their warped little minds, ANYTHING has to be better than
> Windows and they need all the support they can get in their war against
> Microsoft so they don't want to alienate anyone from the other non Windows
> groups.

Well, BSD people can be like that too, as well as Mac people.  Recently 
most Linux people have been pretty reasonable here.  I was always pretty 
reasonable until I would get "triggered" into a fit of rage by something 
like Charlie or Bailo posted here.  Oh yeah, and BSD still doesn't have 
a journalling filesystem yet. ;-)  Well, FreeBSD has been able to read 
ReiserFS r/o for quite some time.  It'd be very interesting to see if 
it's a matter of time until they get the writing part working.  But in 
the past, writing to an ext2 filesystem from BSD did result in some 
occasional nasty filesystem damage.  But I think that's more of the 
developers not having enough resources to commit to maintaining the ext2 
fs coide.

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