Re: Is there a better Alternative to Thunderbird ? <Why I use a Mac>

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James McKenzie wrote:

> <Major Soapbox entered the room, set down and I jumped on it>
> If I could get Fedora or CentOS running on my old Thinkpad, I would move
> back to Linux.  I would have to go find an external DVD player.
>
And MacOS just works on that? Wow, who knew? I bet you installed it from the 
firewire port.

The only Linux you might get going on small memory machines is DSL (Damn Small 
Linux), although there are at least two other tiny distros out I haven't tried. 
Old Slackware using a.out format binaries also work, I ran for some years on a 
16MB laptop, but those days are gone. Don't use my S100 systems much, either.

> I use a Mac because it 'works'.  There is not a major program out there
> that I cannot find a Mac equivilent for that 'works'.  Not so for Linux.
>    You cannot find a program with the functionality and flexibility of
> AutoCad.  All of the third party programs are missing some essential
> function that AutoCad has.
>
My Blue-Ray player just works, too. If you freeze the hardware you can avoid 
surprises. And defining the problem so there is only one solution avoids having 
to choose between several, like the bids which allow any OS but "must run 
Microsoft Word on that OS," which I saw in a bid. I lost a bid because my 
servers "weren't esthetically pleasing," so requiring AutoCad certainly makes 
the choice clear.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
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