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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Peter da Silva wrote:
> First it needs to be possible, then you make it easy. Both OS 9 and BeOS
> fail the "first, make it possible" test.
Well, I agree that they fail that test, which is why I don't use them.
But I also think that designing and bragging about a crappy system is
pretty asinine, but it's what both OS X and linux do. I'm slightly
embarrassed to be using either, but I don't have much choice.
> I can deal with "it sucks, but I can work around it" better than "it sucks,
> but it looks pretty".
It just makes me compucidal, that's all.
> Assuming BeOS will handle the contortions your IDE controller goes through
> when it decides you're using too large a drive (it wouldn't on mine) and if
> that's not an Apple-approved drive you've got to buy a third party formatter.
> And then whan you upgrade to OS X it turns out you need to format the drive
> again. And neither BeOS nor Mac OS is really happy with the idea of splitting
> or merging partitions without blowing away everything on the drive, though
> at least it's *usually* possible with BeOS... but if you use BeOS to redo
> your partitions you can't get an HFS[+] FS on either of the new partitions
> because BeOS won't create an HFS[+] FS and Mac OS won't recognise the
> partitions...
Heh. :) My current box was purchased specifically to work with BeOS four
years ago, so that's all good. :)
I agree that the partition join/split thing is annoying, but at least it's
trivial to get bootable copies in BeOS, which is one thing that OS X has
broken all to hell: It's no longer possible to use the Finder to get a
valid, bootable copy of your boot disk without copying the _entire_ disk.
No more dragging the System Folder.
> You can always do what I did, and buy a cheap Beige G3 and use Mac OS X as
> your desktop. It's got lots of its own suck, but at least it usually looks
> pretty and you can usually work around it.
Yeah, um, I don't really have a good excuse not to do that, true.
> Just wait until you try and repartition a drive on your Mac, or you get
> OpenFirmware wodged so you need to pull the PRAM battery, whack the CUDA
> switch, and let it sit overnight with no power so it'll forget the bad
> settings...
I became a computer professional through learning so much from rebuilding
my stupid 660av every two weeks. I know all about it.
> You can't avoid the suck, all you can do is pick the combination that causes
> the least pain for the moment.
Yeah, I'm just bummed that "least" is such a large number right now. :?
> > And I've got plenty of non-linux hate that would be just as present on
> > FreeBSD, for things like Gnome, OpenLDAP, etc.
>
> I can't imagine becoming so inured to suck that I'd trade my Windowmaker
> environment for Gnome or KDE. :)
No comment.
Luke
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