Comments on: Soon-to-be 2007 Switcher? http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2007/02/05/soon-to-be-2007-switcher/ Politics, Programming and Possibilities Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:27:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Greg Surbey http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2007/02/05/soon-to-be-2007-switcher/#comment-2903 Greg Surbey Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:07:30 +0000 http://blog.inquirylabs.com/2007/02/05/soon-to-be-2007-switcher/#comment-2903 I've had the same installation of Gentoo linux on my home PC since 2003 or so. It was back when Gentoo was versioned with numbers, 1.4 I believe it was. Anyway since then I've had plenty of hassle in keeping the thing updated with the latest in portage. I have never needed to reinstall it though and that has been a major blessing. But you know what? It's worth it. I see all these OSX goodies and I agree OSX is better because it is UNIX with all the proprietary extras. But my platform is totally opensource and I think it's worth the slight pains here and there for the intrinsic benefits. Although I wish to keep my main PC Gentoo Linux, I think my next laptop will have to be a Mac (I hear you can put portage on a Mac). However if like Microsoft Apple starts to try to lock me into crap (e-mail, contacts, whatever) and I can't export my data, then I'm gone in a heart beat. That's one of the reasons I wouldn't ever use iTunes unless I first figured out how PlayFair works. I’ve had the same installation of Gentoo linux on my home PC since 2003 or so. It was back when Gentoo was versioned with numbers, 1.4 I believe it was. Anyway since then I’ve had plenty of hassle in keeping the thing updated with the latest in portage. I have never needed to reinstall it though and that has been a major blessing. But you know what? It’s worth it. I see all these OSX goodies and I agree OSX is better because it is UNIX with all the proprietary extras. But my platform is totally opensource and I think it’s worth the slight pains here and there for the intrinsic benefits. Although I wish to keep my main PC Gentoo Linux, I think my next laptop will have to be a Mac (I hear you can put portage on a Mac). However if like Microsoft Apple starts to try to lock me into crap (e-mail, contacts, whatever) and I can’t export my data, then I’m gone in a heart beat. That’s one of the reasons I wouldn’t ever use iTunes unless I first figured out how PlayFair works.

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