Anybody every try Debian on a Mac?

[John Hughes]

On Friday 15 March 2002 12:44, you wrote:
> on an iBook2), it is far from a perfect world. i.e. gnome/evolution take up
> ungodly ammounts of memory, kde isnt much better....for get most browser
> plugins.....in fact forget them all except java...and thats only changed in

As a side note. I dont run Gnome or Kde. I run a rather antique version of 
Afterstep(v1.0), use Mozilla(and konqueror<sp?>, as Kmail pops it up), and 
kmail(best gui mail client I have yet to find in linux) mostly. 

I do however try them out every couple of months or so to see how they are. I 
am very envious of near system wide Anti-aliased fonts. I think kde is the 
closest to reliable on mac so far. I just have never found gnome to be all 
that stable on x86, much less ppc. Of course my requirments are a bit 
diferent from your standard user...so grain of salt(my req's usually involve 
and easy to use pager with 12 desktops with anywhere from 2 to 10 xterms open 
to numerous servers. not to mention extranious progs like mail, browsing, 
edit sesions, monitors. I dont reboot cause I want up time on my work 
station...its cause I dont want to re-establish 50 ssh sessions to a bunch of 
remote servers.  So, grain of salt.

that said, most would find kde or gnome fairly useable and reliable. as well 
as most other programs(cept maybe dvd stuff).

j