Re: FN-FORUM: Mac vs Linux advice?

date posted 12th January 2005 14:57

Luke Perman wrote:

> k - i guess that's fairly hardcore geekiness!

guy i used to work with can out geek you all... he was at stanford or
somewhere in the 70's and worked down the hall from core unix hackers.
so before there were help files you'd go knock on the door of the guy
who wrote whatever was broken, and if it was sufficiently broken you'd
leave him to rewrite chunks of it overnight, while you went to a
freak-out organised by Dr. Timothy Leary.

> tho i think there is a fair bit of customization you can do to OSX - i
> just don't have any need to.

indeed. recompiling kernels and suchlike is completely and utterly
over-rated.

...j