[plug] linux on an imac

[Mike Holland]

Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

> Many reasons. You've outlined the problem -- MacOS costs money. 

Only if you want it to. While 10.4 is expensive, you can get 10.3 second 
hand cheaply.

>  256MB of RAM is truckloads for Linux.

Not with Gnome. I can't believe how much RAM Gnome sucks. The weather 
applet uses more memory than than a linux 1.x kernel ! 20MB resident for 
Nautilus. Is KDE any better? The apple desktop is slim in comparison.


> Can you not do lots on a PPC/Linux box
> thanks to OSS? Is this a PLUG list or a MLUG list? =) etc etc.

Sure, but you could do the same on os-x (it IS unix), or a faster $20 
P-III PC.  I was assuming you already had a linux box too :-)

Mike.