Hi Sriram, Probably not wise to engage in a controversial topic, but I just thought I'd mention that in terms of sitting down with potential investors (clients included), you won't leave a good impression if you're running an operating system that has difficulties connecting to corporate networks (wpa_supplicant doesn't cut it), struggles to connect an overhead projector without wrestling with X.org configurations, and has issues waking from suspend-to-disk/suspend-to- RAM. Sure you can overcome these issues by carefully selecting hardware and/or configuring your machine to death, but that's probably the last thing you want to be spending your time on if you're running a business (or trying to start one).
It's for that reason that I buy Apple hardware. OS X is my primary work environment, Linux my deployment environment, and Windows my user- testing environment. Running them all on the one machine is a breeze, and I get the convenience of an operating system that's tailored to a handful of known hardware, rather than one which attempts to support everything. And unless you're talking about ultra-cheap laptops or build-it-yourself desktops, the 30% overhead is a myth. Cheers, Nathan de Vries On 23/02/2009, at 9:47 PM, Sriram Panyam wrote: > Actually on the note about the system that reins supreme!! > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=391774 > > personally i am a very strong linux user and frankly i cant find > anything on a mac that i dont have on my fedora 10 box (except the > iphone sdk!) > > actually my issue is not about the vim fix but more about the sweet > 30% overhead il have to forkout for the logo of a bitten apple :D > > cheers > S --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
