Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Danny Pansters
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:18 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Sadly, my tinker-time has run out....
>
>
> I reckon the last two additions to this thread was the passive-aggressive
> version of "can't we just all get along.. and now STFU".
>

Heh!

> For that reason alone, I
> believe that the FreeBSD community actually needs people that tend to go
> against the grain from time to time.  It's a healthy thing.
>

The entire FreeBSD community goes against the grain.  Doesen't anyone
know we are all supposed to sit down and shut up and use the latest
software Redmond has blessed?  After all, this computer industry is
all for the greater glory of Microsoft, didn't ya know? ;-)

> Why not buy one of
> those gorgeous new imacs or a Mac lappy and be done with it, while still
> being able to do a lot of hacking if you really want to? From
> what I've read
> OSX is a great development system.
>

Well, em, it depends.  They may have improved stuff but I ran into a
lot of fun and games building rogue on Panther.  (Hey, a UNIX system
isn't a UNIX system without rogue - it's a piece of history!)  And,
building KDE was a lost cause.

My understanding reading the message boards on MacOS X is that 90%
of the Mac users out there simply use precompiled packages that
someone else built, and so what they have to say about the subject
(which is basically praise, praise, praise, etc.) is pretty much
worthless.  The 10% that actually build software swear at it as
much as they swear by it.

One of the more popular packages out there is a massive piece that
pulls precompiled stuff from archives and installs it, according
to what MacOS X you have running, so that ought to tell you something.

But there's no question that if you can afford it, MacOS X and a
pile of commercial Mac software makes a perfect first OS for a Windows
refugee.

Ted