[Leica] Experience with Apple?

[glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)]

Phil,

That is a masterpiece of JARGON.

Jerry


Philip Forrest wrote:
> The wonderful thing I've found lately running X86-64 SuSE Linux 10.3
> Gnome is that I've gotten a little rusty with troubleshooting or making
> things work better. The reason is that once I got my new system set up
> the way I wanted, it hasn't had a hiccup since. I have to go out of my
> way to look for some development challenge (which I don't usually.)
> That's the way I want my computer to run. I want it to do everything I
> built it to do and then I want it to "disappear", into the background,
> running all the things and doing all the work I ask of it. The learning
> curve migrating to Linux is a bit steep, but there isn't any other OS
> that can be customized like this IMO. I can use all 8GB of my RAM as
> well, as opposed to XP which is still stuck at just over 3GB. I also
> want to chime in that the GIMP is a great tool with everything I've
> done and need in PS. I used to run PS in WINE before I really trusted
> the open source software, but GIMP just as powerful as the megacorps'
> offerings if you ask me. xsane and vuescan both work with my scanners;
> I can open up and manipulate all of my digital images dating back about
> 6 years regardless of format. There's no reason I'd ever want to go back
> to a windows machine. I've also got 10.3 Gnome running on an IBM T30
> which is obsoleted by a few years. It proved perfect for school this
> last semester and if I wanted to run some more graphics heavy apps, I'd
> boot into FVWM for a very lightweight environment and go to town on my
> images or CAD drawings. 
> It just works so well.
> PhilFo
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> I am also a Linux desktop guy--fedora is my flavor since i've run through
> a long list of redhats since 2001.  ubuntu seems to be all the rage, and
> at some point i'll have to give it a try.
>
> I'm amazed at how well the open source stuff works these days and how
> much progress has been made in the past 5-6 years, gphoto2 grabs
> photos from my fuji f30 and m8, digikam is fine indexing software which
> understands the dng and canon (and other) raw formats.  xsane does my
> scans.  cinepaint and gimp are fine photo manipulation software, cinepaint
> can do 16 bit images and raw formats.
>
> we also have an imac and powerbook and ancient mac g3 (running osx 10.3)
> plus a couple of thinkpads (dual boots--i had to have an xp machine
> when i went back to school).  also sharing my subnet are 
> 2 Tivos (embedded linux computers), a WII and a PS3.  i guess the
> home media thing is happening when you have as many entertainment systems
> on your subnet as general-purpose computers.
>
> BTW, and OT, i've recently discovered by accident that the PS3 and a flat
> panel TV makes for a GREAT DIGITAL SLIDESHOW PROJECTOR, put in a CD or DVD 
> with a filesystem and jpgs and you get very nicely-rendered images on a 
> 46" 
> 1920x1080 resolution screen.  you can entertain (or bore the life out of) 
> your whole family for hours.
>
> -rei
>
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