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Old 04.17.2007, 01:04 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by Inhuman
Yeah, The installation is the biggest pain about linux. It takes weeks to perfect it, and then you have to reinstall kernels every once in a while, delete the grub entry, and recreate the master font file every time you install one. It's so so smooth once you have everything perfect, but it takes a lot to maintain.

yeah, unfortunately i lack the time for that. was trying gimp for windows just last night & the thought of being stuck in a linux environment is quite terrifying. i used to run a little linux web/ bittorrent server for sonic youth shows (2 years ago i think? a little longer?) & it took me forever to sort shit out.

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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
Make sure if you do that you buy an older iMac to do it with. Don't think you can pick up a new Mac Mini for $400 and do anything with pre-OSX files, because you can't. Mac "Classic" OS doesn't exist in the new intel machines. I'm sure some Mac addict hacker will program an emulator one of these days, but Apple uprgrades their old shit to death faster than McMicrosoft.

I'm no Jobs worshipper, and I agree with those who lambast Apple for putting out hardware product on the market that disintegrates from use. Nonetheless, when it comes to software MS has been chasing Mac from day one, and they continually come up with shit that loves to crash, freeze, reset itself for no reason, and invite every virus ever dreamt of for dinner when it's not busy arguing with security software that makes it crash, freeze, and reset itself for no reason. I'm sure Vista is more of the same.

thanks yea. imy first machine ver was a mac classic & i have things currently stashed in a bondi blue imac w/ os9. the files are just macwrite though. old crappy stuff that probably devoid of literary value & useful only as psychoanalytical material. but i want it around....

im guessing mac write files should still be openable, right? or maybe i'll just export them as DOS files & open w/ some filter in ms office. ha ha.

xp2 is solid & trouble-free for me though. i remember when i had to transition from win2K to xp, it was such a pain! xp home remained shit (I had it on a work machine), but pro was just great & i never missed driver installation w/ win2k.

i'll wait until the dust settles on vista & their first service packages are released.
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