Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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Member since:2006-05-12
I use Fedora Core PPC and Gentoo PPC on 2 ibook G3.
It works OK but compilation for Gentoo PPC and yum/yumex on FedoraCore PPC take a lot of time.
Apple did sell expensive hardware at high prices with a slow slow CPu ...
I used Linux on these systems because MacOs X was so damned slow ...
I miss on these systems things such as Flash (swf) support in browsers - Blame it on Macromedia - and
Vmware ...
Clearly I will buy a DualCore (Asus or Acer) to be more productive (and will consider Asus or Acer)
with PCLOS + Debian ...
SL/
Member since:
2006-05-11
I found running linux on a PPC to be complete hell. Just getting a JRE to install took me far longer than it should have. I'll keep running ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron than put up with that any day (although I wouldn't mind using a Mactel).