- a properly configured linux box is much snappier. OS X can lock you out. The "turning wheel of annoyance" is absent in linux. With respect to latency, OSX is at the level of early linux distributions. An OS should never lock out or delay the user.
- Other advantages of linux are not having to reboot after an update, an annoyance which makes OSX unfit for scientific computing.
- The lack of DRM, the vendor independence, the transparency of what process are running.
- The lack of case sensitivity on OS X is a serious problem for me. Apple could not inherit that from Next.
- Also, on linux, I can run a minimal windows manager like blackbox, which have essentially no footprint and it still looks good.
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Computer RAM HD Bought status Company CPU Clock OS hostname -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Genie_I 14 K - 1980 dead TCS_Trommeschl. Z80_A 4 MHz Dos 2 Atari_1400_ST 1 M 20 M 1986 dead Atari 68000 8 MHz GemOS 3 Nextstation 8 M 200 M 1990 dead Next_Coorp. 68040 25 MHz Nextstep 4 Sparc_LX 24 M 450 M 1994 dead Sun Microsparc 50 Mhz Sun OS 4.1 5 7200/75 32 M 500 M 1995 dead Apple PPC_601 75 Mhz Mac OS 6-7 6 5300_Powerb 16 M 250 M 1996 dead Apple PPC_603e 100 Mhz Mac OS 6-7 7 Dell 128 M 8 G 1996 alive Dell P_II 300 MHz Redhat hadamard 8 6500/225 64 M 3 G 1997 dead Apple PPC_603e 225 MHz Mac OS 7-9 9 Image_sys 64 M 4 G 1999 alive Image_systems AMD_K6 300 MHz Redhat/Mandrake 10 Tuxtops 64 M 4 G 2000 dead Tuxtops Celeron 450 MHz Redhat/Mandrake 11 Gateway 128 M 15 G 2000 alive Gateway P_III 800 MHz Mandrake 6--10 ncd3 12 Cube_G4 320 M 20 G 2001 retired Apple MPC7400/G4 450 Mhz Mac OS 9-10 13 IMac_G4 512 M 40 G 2002 retired Apple MPC7400/G4 700 Mhz Mac OS 10 14 Dell 512 M 20 G 2002 alive Dell P_III 1000 Mhz Mandrake 7-10 wiener 15 Dell 512 M 80 G 2002 alive Dell P_IV 2250 Mhz Mandrake 8-10 knill8 16 Ibook 512 M 30 G 2002 dead Apple G3 800 Mhz Mac OS 10 17 Zaurus 64 M 128 M 2003 dead Sharp StrongARM 206 Mhz Lineo's Embedix 18 Visionman 1 G 120 G 2003 alive Visionman 2x-Athlon 1666 Mhz Mand. 8-10/Ubuntu space 19 Ibook_G4 768 M 60 M 2004 alive Apple G4 1070 Mhz Mac OS 10 knill4 20 Noname 500 M 150 M 2004 alive Self_built P_IV 2500 Mhz Mandrake 9-10 moser 21 MacMini 500 M 1 T 2004 alive Apple G4 1420 Mhz Mac OS 10 knill2 22 IMac_G5 1 G 160 G 2004 alive Apple G5 1500 Mhz Mac OS 10 knill5 23 Dell_XPS_Gen5 3 G 750 G 2005 alive Dell P_D 3000 Mhz Mandriva/Ubuntu knill10 24 Mac Mini Intel 1 G 250 G 2006 alive Apple Intel 1660 Ghz Mac OS 10 time 25 IMac_Core_Duo 1 G 250 G 2006 alive Apple Intel 2160 Ghz Mac OS 10 diophant 26 IBook Core 2 Duo 1 G 80 G 2006 alive Apple Intel 2000 Ghz Mac OS 10 knill0 27 Thinkmate Core Duo 4 G 1 T 2008 alive Thinkmate Intel 3000 Ghz Ubuntu matter |
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