Re: [microsound] ppc-oriented Linux(was: Gentoo for MacOS)

[Niklas Werner <bergtroll@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:21, Arie van Schutterhoef wrote:
> >you provoked it... my highly subjective and slightly romantic account:
>
> -Most certainly and I'm going to enjoy it with a similar notion...
>
:-)
> -My does too and I use Mac OS 9...
>
This is very nice, but what do you do when you have the need for a new 
machine that inevitably won't run OS 9 anymore?

> >- I have only the services running I really use (no iChat-auto-popup
> >notifier, no finder-indexing-auto-daemon, no iTunes that eats up
> > bloody 20% of my CPU for simple mp3-playback!...)
>
> -I only switch on what I need...

<angry OS9 rant>
This may be a bit deceiving. How can you be sure you actually _can_ switch 
off things. (Did you have a look at the source code?, can you actually 
influence what the system does at startup, or for that matter, at any 
time? I don't think so. Can you even have a process list under OS 9 
without buying additional software? AFAIK Os 9 doesn't even come with a 
telnet-client. Let alone the non-existent multitasking...)
</angry OS9 rant>

But to be fair, there's still software that I need running only under OS9, 
albeit only the VL1m-editor is left...

And I need to stress: If you _are_ happy with whatever OS you are running, 
that's just as fine with me, I'm not trying to convert anybody.

Cheers,

Niklas
--
Computer Music PhD-student
University of Waikato
Hamilton
New Zealand

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