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psyjax:
Speaking of Mac OS7, I got all nostalgic and crap and thought Id drop this link:

http://toastytech.com/guis/mac755.html

It's hard to belive that Windoze today isn't nearly as well designed as OS7 was then!

And check out this:

http://toastytech.com/guis/macos81.html

Granted, I still think 7.5 was the Classic OS high-point, but OS8 has some ultra-excellent fetures. Please tell me M$ has a better designed OS? jeezz. go home.

Sorry... That sort of talk raises the hair on the back of my neck and I go into rant mode  :D

hm_murdock:
Amen, psyjax!

the classic OS had years of development behind it. I've seen Macs running any version of it from 7.0 on be rock solid, running for weeks with no problems.

However, as a comp. lab asst. I also see the OS get assraped by everybody d/ling every IM, filesharing, and email client on the farking planet and clogging up the Extensions folder. At the end of every day, I just set all of their Extension Managers back to a configuration based on 9.2 on my own iMac.

Certainly nothing flaky about it! Now badly written apps... that's another topic...

poloktim:
Ah, just last night I told a friend I was planning on putting Linux on my computer. He riddiculed me saying Windows was much more secure.

This is where the Riddler's Really Hidden files came into it. I took him to his computer and showed him his history that he "deleted" often was very much still there. I then reminded him Linux, unlike Windows does what it is told.

His dad then walked in "Linux is old!" he said strongly, "WinXP Pro is the best." My friend and I both showed him the secretly hidden History contents and then he was upset. I then explained to both of them I was unsure about using MacOS or Linux, they both laughed at MacOS, I tapped the screen of their monitors and they shut up.

My mate is building his own computer same as me (he'll do it quickly because he has money, I don't  :(  ) and he's put me incharge of finding a suitable OS. I told him Dual Boot for a while, as that's what I'm doing (to get a feel for it, if he doesn't like it he can use Windows until a new one is installed, software etc. etc. etc.) until he is confident enough with it to wipe Windows.

Our only problem, which distro of Linux to choose? And how to get them?

voidmain:
If you have high speed connection see my tag line. If not you can order the CDs directly from the distro vendor or from Linux CD sites for very little. If you download them you can try a few and see which you like most. RedHat, SuSe, Mandrake are all pretty good for the beginner and the experienced.

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by Kat:
I find that most people who rag on Linux and Mac are the same people who need help dragging the taskbar back to the bottom of the screen.
--- End quote ---


! forty points! (yes i saw that on the windows BS as well!)...

edit - psyjax, i just noticed that those macos7 and 8 screenshots are from an ix86 computer running a motorola emulator!

[ October 10, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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