<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>HI there..<br><br>I just want to "share" my experiences with Osīs..<br><br>I started in the nineties with a windows machine, I tried 95, 98, millenium, nt, xp....<br>It hanged really frequently (20 times in a day w cad software..) so I assumed that as a normal function state from the machine..<br><br>At some point I tried beOS and I found it great but I couldnīt do anything w it..<br><br>years later, I discovered that computers with the fruit thing and I was really amazed, not just because of the stabilty (but still one or two hangs per day with os 9.2), also because I could do audio in real-time with them.. (well, coming from that windows nightmare, even a gameboy was fascinating..)<br><br>Then I got one.. and until the day, Iīve been using all the Osīs and also tried almost all the hardware that was/is in the
market. <br><br>My experience with linux (about 4 years ago, ethic/curiosity ) started very slow, but definitely in an ascendent curve of satisfaction & admiration.. <br><br>Nowadays to code and to travel, I use a small thinkpad with ubuntu 10 and the experience is just fantastic.. Itīs actually so good that Iīm starting to hate all the mac shits.. Because when you know where linux cames from and who works on it, you can understand that sometimes you have to put energy on your side to look for a driver or whatever (Not the case at all w ubu 10). <br><br>What I canīt understand.... Is that this big companies (micr/appl) with hundred or "thousands" of good programmers working for them, are still doing crap... (seems that they are focusing energies in making money & trying to protect his soft/hard instead of making good code...)<br><br>yesterday I formatted my
mac and I installed the last system (10.6 ). Thereīs a known bug on it that not just doesnīt connect to internet, it also keeps sending packets to the router until the router stops working,,,, (???).<br><br>I had to reset the router from the linux and download one by one the system updates for the mac. This bug is known since 10.6.0, I already have the 10.6.4 and the bug itīs still not solved completely.,.. (???????) <br><br>This just shows that It doesnīt matter how many hundreds of related posts you do in the official apple forums & related.. apple just donīt give a shit about the problems of the users.... (specially if your hardware itīs not brand new...).<br><br>The ubuntu forums are far more clear and helpful than that,, <br><br>About windows, I will not complain anymore... (not neccesary), but I still "understand" people that uses it, because thereīs people that doesnīt care about
computers (even when they are working w them..)<br><br>what I do, when Iīm teaching a workshop Is to carry one or two usb sticks with a live distro (pure dyne / openartist ) and invite the people to try a "truly" operative system..<br><br>many of my friends, they have switched to Linux (at least partially..) and they are happy w it.. (that makes me happy too..).<br><br>If the trajectories of the operative systems evolutions follow as they are already, It wouldnīt sound strange to me that in some years, the amount of linux users (pure or mixed) will increase massively.<br><br>To finish, I would just like to thank to all the linux developers / contributors for his hard work to make this incredibly operative system.<br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br></td></tr></table><br>