Well, the sky won't fall if you install linux. I currently run a dual-boot machine with ubuntu (#1 Easiest to use Linux distro for 2 years in a row) and Windows XP (I play computer games). Really, if you run a mac, all you need to know is what type of computer you're running -- there has to be a way to access the BIOS, so you can run a multi-boot system. However, if you really feel it's impossible to change, it is true that Mac OS X is a lot like linux.
~Ben On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:04 +0100, Manuel wrote: > Am 28/12/2006 um 10:02 schrieb Anthony W. Youngman: > > >> I've been working with Macs since the silver days of system 7, > >> when Jobs was out and Linux was a baby. Since I forgot how a > >> semiconductor works, I can't understand computers. Now in those > >> days someone would come and write: "optimize your computer doing > >> this" and then you did it and nothing more worked. This made me > >> sceptical. > > > > I was around in the days of CP/M, although I never used it ... :-) > > And I wonder what kind of animal was a CP/M > > >> I fear that if I install, no, try to install Linux in my Mac, an > >> asteroid will fall on earth. > > > > Just put it on a second hard disk. If you've got a Power Mac, > > you'll probably need to download Yellow Dog Linux, rather than get > > it off a cover disk. Debian and Gentoo would also be fine, but > > Gentoo is NOT a good choice for somebody who doesn't have linux > > experience. > > You are kidding me, right? Buy a second hard disk just to have an > asteroid fall on earth? And Power Macs are over, Jobs went Intel a > while ago. But you do have an interesting point: perhaps some day > I'll turn a penguin loose over my old 68k and PPC and see if I can't > still use them, though I don't know about those serial ports and > suchlike they changed to force us to upgrade. > > >> Besides which, though Linuxers seem to be nice people, I don't > >> quite see what I would do with it, or do better than now. I'm glad > >> that in the 80' a rocket scientist (yes, that is what he was) told > >> me to buy myself an Apple if I could afford it. Since just then > >> the Macs started to get cheaper and it was my first computer... > >> > > Sounds like he had his head screwed on right :-) > > At least he got that right, yeah. > > >> Oh, the smiling guy you see in the newsstands! Is he called Tux > >> because of a tuxedo? (funny word, "tuxedo") > >> > > I don't think it comes from there, but I don't know. He was created > > by a guy called Larry Ewing (iirc), and the copyright says "feel > > free to use him to promote linux", which is why he gets everywhere :-) > > Apple uses an apple, somehow turned blue now (the rainbow colours are > now in that turning wheel you get instead of a crash under OS X) and > Windows uses an ugly window. That's logical. Linux got a penguin? At > least he's smiling. > > >>> Just don't expect it to be like Windows > >> > >> I wouldn't dream of it - don't like nightmares. > >> > >> > >>> (it's MUCH more reliable > >> > >> Yeah, well, that's no great feat. How does it compare wth OS X? > >> > > I gather OS X is a fairly hard act to beat. Windows, of course, is > > not a fair fight :-) But I think linux does have the edge over OS X > > - it has the edge over most things :-) > > But where is the edge in this case, I mean from the point of view of > somebody like me, computer-stupid as opposed to -illiterate. What > would *I* get out of it? > > > Linux and OS X are both Unices, so I think you'll find them > > similar. Yellow Dog in particular will probably feel Mac-like. > > If there is a blue apple, why not a yellow dog. > > Manue _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
