[G4] A fond hello

[John Niven]

Hi Eric,

Well that's a bit like a breath of fresh air :-)

I find that mostly mac lists are somewhat less
technical than others. Thats OK, and probably reflects
the type of user that like their systems for reasons
other than the technical.

Compared to mine, your system is pretty powerful. I
have tried Ubuntu and other variations of Linux. I
have used older pc hardware for this as both a
learning excercise and an attempt to get something
close to the Mac experience out of these otherwise
wasted boxes. I even tried it on my G4, but frankly I
come up with this reasoning. 

The core advantage of Apple hardware is it can run
MacOS. 

No other hardware can do this. If I can run a MacOS on
a system then I do. Other hardware is easy and cheap
to get hold of. Most Linux is written for the x86
platform anyway. 

I think that Apple owes alot to the open source
community. I find OSX has tranformed the value of my
Apple hardware in my work. I interface with Unix (Sun)
systems all the time. With X11 this is a natural. I
also run Microsoft Office, and use Entourage to read
my company mail and plan meetings through an otherwise
PC only Exchange server. I can also handle all the
documents that my PC workmates send me.

I'm all for open source (free is good!) but I cannot
justify running anything other than MacOS on an Apple
machine.

BTW I have a Digidesign Audiomedia III PCI soundcard
in my "Audio" G4. The only problem is it limits me to
Jaguar. I run an older version of Protools on it. Very
cheap on eBay. 

But doesn't your G4 have a built-in sound-in
(Mic/line) input? You can also download Audacity and
be recording for free. 

Cheers,
            John

--- Eric Wood <ewood at izoom.net> wrote:
> > Eric here. I've just joined the list and want to
> say hello. I have a G4
> > "digital audio" model with an OWC G4 1.6 GHz dual
> upgrade, a Radeon 9800
> > card, 1.5 gigs of RAM and Fedora Linux 7. 


       
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