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Actually, I won't have the same attitude... I'll be indifferent, and not comment at all, as I don't really care what Windows does. Even though I use it almost

Actually, I won't have the same attitude... I'll be indifferent, and not comment at all, as I don't really care what Windows does. Even though I use it almost daily for various client work. When it comes right down to it, I don't buy into this whole OS religion thing. I've had more than a passing exposure to quite a few of them, and they all have/had their place. Case in point, I started my career on IBM 3081's and PDP-11's. I even have a full rack of gear in my home office that includes a bunch of boxes with various flavours of Linux installed, a Tadpole laptop running Solaris, an operational NeXT Cube, SGI and HP boxes running their Unix variants, a cluster of Sun Netras, and on and on. I've also got a few different laptops with Windows and Linux installed. And a couple of MacBook Pro's. They all have good features, and bad, but none of them have everything. Do I care what someone else uses? Nope. Do I care if they gush over it and think it's the coolest thing ever? Nope. Do I feel some overwhelming urge to "educate" them on why their choices are "wrong"? Nope. I just know what works for me, and am happy to discuss things with like-minded individuals. I'm not a fanboy, and I haven't drunk the Cool-Aid. I also don't think everyone who owns a Mac is like that either. Call me crazy, I guess.

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gonzo 16y ago
Tadpole laptop? Really? Which one? I did the port of Slowaris to several of the SPARCbooks back when I worked there. (Started my career on a DEC-10, followed by a Vax 11/780, a couple 11/750s and a smattering of PDP-11s (11/44, 11/70)) Had Linux (and NeXTstep) running on an early Tadpole P1000 (100MHz Pentium laptop, it was the sh*t when it came out.) Mostly all Macs now.
- nettdata 16y ago
  It's an UltraBookIIe. Needed it when I provisioned 6 racks of Sun gear in an off-shore co-lo for a gaming company, and it was the easiest way to auto install/configure all the OS's and software into bare metal gear. Wasn't the fastest thing on the planet, but it worked really well.
  - gonzo 16y ago
    Oh. That's the "other" Tadpole (previously RDI, who acquired Tadpole Technology, Plc in order to trade its stock.)
iuguy 16y ago
You're damn straight I'm calling you crazy, running Solaris on a Tadpole Sparcbook - If you're running a Sparcbook or even a Sparcbook 2, Solaris is just too slow to reasonably run - choose life, choose SunOS 4.1.3.
- gonzo 16y ago
  I personally did the ports of 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 to both the SPARCbook and SPARCbook 2.
  - iuguy 16y ago
    Dude, if you're ever in the UK I owe you a beer. Heck, many beers. To be fair, the main problems I had with Solaris on SPARCbook 2 were more to do with Java being too slow and Sun's insistence on making everything Java-i-fied around the time I was using it.
vacri 16y ago
I'm similarly OS-agnostic in terms of performance and usually recommend Apple gear for people with no preferences. But it still bugs me when people bray about 'revolutionary Apple products' that are really just Apple joining the party. This 'amazing new thing' gets shoved in my face that has been around for ages and I'm supposed to mollify them with vapid oohs and ahs. Or if someone asks me why I've got an android phone and not an iphone and I casually respond that I don't like the way Apple devices get locked to iTunes, I get groans and eye-rolls. Fuck that shit, you ask me a question and then you socially punish me because I prefer to go a different way, damn right I get pissed off at the 'Apple Cult'. Fanboys of all stripes are painful as hell, and the Apple Fanboy Cult is currently ascendent, that's all.

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gonzo 16y ago

Tadpole laptop? Really? Which one? I did the port of Slowaris to several of the SPARCbooks back when I worked there. (Started my career on a DEC-10, followed by a Vax 11/780, a couple 11/750s and a smattering of PDP-11s (11/44, 11/70)) Had Linux (and NeXTstep) running on an early Tadpole P1000 (100MHz Pentium laptop, it was the sh*t when it came out.) Mostly all Macs now.

nettdata 16y ago
It's an UltraBookIIe. Needed it when I provisioned 6 racks of Sun gear in an off-shore co-lo for a gaming company, and it was the easiest way to auto install/configure all the OS's and software into bare metal gear. Wasn't the fastest thing on the planet, but it worked really well.
- gonzo 16y ago
  Oh. That's the "other" Tadpole (previously RDI, who acquired Tadpole Technology, Plc in order to trade its stock.)

iuguy 16y ago

You're damn straight I'm calling you crazy, running Solaris on a Tadpole Sparcbook - If you're running a Sparcbook or even a Sparcbook 2, Solaris is just too slow to reasonably run - choose life, choose SunOS 4.1.3.

gonzo 16y ago
I personally did the ports of 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 to both the SPARCbook and SPARCbook 2.
- iuguy 16y ago
  Dude, if you're ever in the UK I owe you a beer. Heck, many beers. To be fair, the main problems I had with Solaris on SPARCbook 2 were more to do with Java being too slow and Sun's insistence on making everything Java-i-fied around the time I was using it.

vacri 16y ago

I'm similarly OS-agnostic in terms of performance and usually recommend Apple gear for people with no preferences. But it still bugs me when people bray about 'revolutionary Apple products' that are really just Apple joining the party. This 'amazing new thing' gets shoved in my face that has been around for ages and I'm supposed to mollify them with vapid oohs and ahs. Or if someone asks me why I've got an android phone and not an iphone and I casually respond that I don't like the way Apple devices get locked to iTunes, I get groans and eye-rolls. Fuck that shit, you ask me a question and then you socially punish me because I prefer to go a different way, damn right I get pissed off at the 'Apple Cult'. Fanboys of all stripes are painful as hell, and the Apple Fanboy Cult is currently ascendent, that's all.