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Old 11-13-2003, 02:16 AM   #16
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As a computer engineer the first thing you learn is that a fundamental characteristic of software is that is has errors. As far as I know there is software on Macs so Macs do crash. It is just a matter of likeliness.
 
Old 11-13-2003, 02:20 AM   #17
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Hey
Calm down man
Its just an opion as i SAID
I Just wanna know thats all Geeeeeeee Goddd ~So are the other people who are reading this forum.
And why move it to general?? I just want to know how you can make slackware better than mac!! Thats the whole point that I put this thread on
Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
 
Old 11-13-2003, 02:23 AM   #18
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Sorry I was referring my last post to AZMEEN!!!!!!!!!!"!!
 
Old 11-13-2003, 02:42 AM   #19
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SweetChris, Slackware is just another Linux - for some (like me) it's more than that - but in the end you can safely say if you can change the look of Slackware you can do the same for Mandrake, SuSE, RadHat, Debian, Caldera and whatever they're called. That's why it isn't exactly a Slackware only question but more a Linux general question.

They (almost) all use the same X server software and the same Window Managers or Desktop Environments.
 
Old 11-13-2003, 07:30 AM   #20
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Originally posted by klinger2004
I would have to agree with what arrruken said. I use Windows for dedicated professional multitrack audio - in the 2 years that I have been using XP
Have you ever tried doing this in linux? I have and I just can't find any software comparible to commercial software for Windows. The only one I really came across was Audacity, and it was pretty slow and lacked features.
 
Old 11-13-2003, 09:25 AM   #21
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SweetChris, my reply was not targetted to you, but to h3pc4t. I just can't take it when Mac fans say that Macs doesn't crash, it does... If you haven't seen it crash then you have not used it enough... And I'm not picking on Macs, all the OS that I have used have crashed right in front of my eyes, yes, including Linux! Sorry if you felt that I was picking on you.

However, many of your comments regarding the superiority of 3D rendering on the Mac is grossly inaccurate. I knew someone who did an impact simulation programme for his PhD thesis. How complex was this programme? The calculations are done on a Cray and the 3D rendering is done on an SGI box... pretty complex stuff, admittedly waaaayyyy over my head. And on the campus there are hundreds of Macs and only one single SGI machine, hmmm... why did he choose the SGI box to render the simulation?

And for the past 5 years, I don't think that the Mac was ever intensively used to generate 3D animations for any movies. This has always been the forte of SGI and now Linux is encroaching this territory.

The concept of the Mac as the only serious graphical workstation is so 1980-ish. Photoshop on the Mac is roughly the same as Photoshop on Windows. Whatever you can get on Mac, you can get on Windows. And if you do a costs-vs-benefit analysis, you'll find that using a PC will actually be more beneficial in the long run.

But in the end, it's all a matter of tastes... If you prefer to be sandboxed in a niche market... hey, get a Mac, and be happy for it.... more power to you.
 
Old 11-13-2003, 11:01 AM   #22
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Computers shouldn't crash just because the user puts a lot of crap on them. In any modern operating system, this does not happen.

Macs are "only" stable because they're based on unix. What's your point? Also, I don't really see how market share has anything to do with stability. The computer doesn't check the internet to find out Apple's marketshare before it kernel panics.
h3pc4t, I meant the more crap thats on a system, spyware and viruses especially, bloat the registry and screw with stability. The simple fact is there isnt as much crap(spyware and viruses) on mac's to screw them up. If their market share was higher, meaning more users, there would be more spyware and viruses for them. And when I said macs are only stable because they are based on unix, i meant that previous versions of Mac OS(before OS X) werent anything special or uncrashable. So by them being more stable now is no testament to their programmers, because they just based their OS off Unix.
The only thing going for Macs are they are less vulnerable to hacks, viruses, spyware; and they dont have to update all the time. They certainly arent faster for shit.
 
Old 11-13-2003, 11:06 AM   #23
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Have you ever tried doing this in linux? I have and I just can't find any software comparible to commercial software for Windows. The only one I really came across was Audacity, and it was pretty slow and lacked features.
I don't use Linux for this purpose (= one of the two reasons I still keep Windows on my box), but Ardour seems promising...haven't tried it out, but who knows.
 
Old 11-13-2003, 02:05 PM   #24
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Sweet Chris, if you want your Linux box to have that OS X look, then do the following:
1) Install the Superkaramba .32 RPM i586
2) Get the Tuxbar w/ Smoothzoom Karamba Theme or The New Tux OS X Theme
3) Get the Crystal OS X Icon tar.gz
4) Get The OS X Wall Paper

All of these can be obtained from KDE-Look.org

Once you have all of these running, you will swear that you sweet little Linux box is a Mac with Juguar on it. Ahhhh the beauty of PC power with a Mac look! Eat your hearts out you Mac-a Trashers!

Linuxly Yours,
Whoots
(As I type away at work on my G4 Mac at work!)
 
  


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