Cool! I'm glad my rant helped you!
I edited it and blogged it last night, at
http://www.scottgrizzard.com/blog/2009/05/29/why-linux-is-better-than-mac-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-apt-get-and-debuild/,
but you may distribute either version.
If you want to edit it and redistribute it, that's cool too. I'd
appreciate a shout back to my blog page if you do.
- Scott
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Scott Grizzard <scott@scottgrizzard.com>
> wrote:
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>> First, I am a Mac user. I am a Linux user too, and I was a Linux user
>> before I was a Mac user. I run Linux on all my servers, and I run Linux
>> on my desktop. For my laptop, I went with a high-end Mac, mostly
>> because I wanted everything on my laptop to "just work" without running
>> an xp vm like I do at home to run some software. I wanted a bash shell,
>> I was suduced by iTunes and the cool ads, and I wanted to run World of
>> Warcraft without dual booting (in the cold, dark days when Wine didn't
>> work as well for games and we only had white presidents).
>>
>
> Awesome... That is about the best reasoning I have seen regarding our
> favorite OS. So much so that I will (with your permission Scott) give
> a
> few copies out to friends of mine. It truly gets to the real heart of the
> issue, the time spent with Linux is MUCH more productive than with
> those commercial products, and after a few minutes or hours when
> possible with Linux each day, you feel like you have done something
> productive not fight with some counter productive OS, but since most
> people have never seen anything else they never realize what they
> are missing unless they are shown.
>
> By way running Compiz on this IdeaPad S10 really causes the questions
> to pop up, like What version of Windows does that?? or How did you get
> Windows to do that?? Even running all of that bling on this little box
> and
> it still runs rings around the XP home that was on it. I was on a flight
> yes-
> terday, and was doing some stuff with it, I had all kind of questions
> about
> it, what they all wanted was the "cube"...
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
>
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