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maybe you shouldn't be a unix faggot, you dickhead* *may have been written at 4:44 am on sunday morning will rely on others to fix this problem without one noticing On 5/21/06, Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > So I picked up a MacBook yesterday, for various reasons but mostly becaus= e > my 12" powerbook feels really slow these days. After getting my accounts > moved over, which took a while (mostly because I have 45GB of music), I w= ent > about making it resemble the *nix workstation I know and love. > > These days, that mostly involves getting X11 installed and then getting R= XVT > working. I tried Apple's Terminal for a while, but I can't change the AN= SI > colors and the defaults suck when having a dark background, and it's > difficult to automatically tile them, which I always do. > > So, I install X11 and DarwinPorts. Hmm, nothing works. Ah, DarwinPorts > can't find a compiler. Ok, go into XCode and install the compiler. Or, > well, install both of them. Nope, still doesn't work. Ok, link gcc-4.0 = to > gcc. Nope, still doesn't work. Look at the build log, realize it's miss= ing > "as". Do some searching, realize that I need another package. > > This is where I realize, OS X is an embarrassment. > > See, the DarwinPorts package was a normal OS X package. If OS X had a re= al > packaging system, then the DarwinPorts package would have been able to sa= y, > hey, this won't work, you're going to need these 7 packages. > > Instead, because OS X's packaging is basically a glorified tarball, you j= ust > have to try it, and then figure out the failures yourself. > > Of course, it's not just in the Unix world where OS X's packaging falls f= lat > on its face. "Just drag it into the applications folder" is a nice insta= ll > method, but it sucks from then on. What packages do I have installed? H= ave > they changed? Are there updates available? No idea, no way to find out, > unless maybe it's an Apple package directly. > > And, of course, even though my motivation for buying this machine was > because my 12" feels really slow, this machine feels just about as slow. > Particularly, if I am doing more than one thing at a time -- say, Firefox= is > loading a tab, and I switch workspaces -- then the whole machine bogs dow= n > just as badly as my 12" did. I/O seems to just kill OS X. > > I'd love to think that OS X could be free of software hate, but I don't s= ee > it happening any time soon. Give me apt and a decent package manager, an= d > then a kernel that doesn't somehow manage to make a dual-proc 2ghz machin= e > feel dog-slow, and then we'll talk. > > -- > I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. Wh= en > people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. > -- Ray Bradbury > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com > >
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