Alpha Core Directions
Rob B
rbyrnes at mailshack.com
Wed Dec 22 03:19:40 UTC 2004
At 09:35 AM 22/12/2004, Nelson Brito wrote:
>At 08:49 AM 22/12/2004, Jeff A. wrote:
>>I'm using PPC and Alpha machines as an excuse to finally learn linux, but
>>when every release is different and nobody uses the same editors and setups,
>>it's really, really stupid. Mandrake does this, SuSE does that, and Red Hat
>>does something else. Then Yellow Dog does *almost* like Red Hat. Then I
>>
>that's the beauty of linux you can chose whatever tools you like the best.
And also one of the reasons I switched from Linux to FreeBSD. I still keep
my hand in with Debian (very) occasionally.
>unfortunately i have to tell you that OSX is Linux... if you don't like it!!
Actually, it's a Mach-type kernel with portions of userland from FreeBSD.
Don't take this as a "my *n*x is bigger/better/faster/whatever than your
*n*x", either.
Cheers,
Rob
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