Comments on: This sound familiar? http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/07/this-sound-familiar/ Ramblings of Jim Whiteside, and some good old Norfolk squit. Sat, 19 May 2012 09:26:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: mat http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/07/this-sound-familiar/comment-page-1/#comment-150 mat Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:30:17 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=159#comment-150 No flames, but - my experience going back to OSX after Linux (rather than coming to OSX from Windows, which was what happened last time), was that it felt slow, clunky, outdated and generally a bit crap. On the other hand, another friend was espousing the other day the excellence of OSX, especially XCode, as a development environment. Each to their own. :) (I'm still waiting for an excuse to install <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/" rel="nofollow">Plan 9</a>) Oh, actually - this might interest you too, a tiny, fairly rugged, very low power (4W!) pc for under 200 pounds. <a href="http://www.fit-pc.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Fit-PC</a> No flames, but - my experience going back to OSX after Linux (rather than coming to OSX from Windows, which was what happened last time), was that it felt slow, clunky, outdated and generally a bit crap.

On the other hand, another friend was espousing the other day the excellence of OSX, especially XCode, as a development environment. Each to their own. :)

(I’m still waiting for an excuse to install Plan 9)

Oh, actually - this might interest you too, a tiny, fairly rugged, very low power (4W!) pc for under 200 pounds. Fit-PC

]]> By: jaydublu http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/07/this-sound-familiar/comment-page-1/#comment-149 jaydublu Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:18:40 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=159#comment-149 Most *nix distros have a time and a place - I've had some fun with Gentoo (see <a href="/blog/?tag=trundle" rel="nofollow">Trundle</a>) but they're all hard work one way or another and for the moment at least the only thing that would tempt me off a Windoze Desktop environment would be OS-X (no flames please!) Most *nix distros have a time and a place - I’ve had some fun with Gentoo (see Trundle) but they’re all hard work one way or another and for the moment at least the only thing that would tempt me off a Windoze Desktop environment would be OS-X (no flames please!)

]]> By: mat http://povich.co.uk/blog/2008/07/this-sound-familiar/comment-page-1/#comment-147 mat Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:38:52 +0000 http://povich.co.uk/blog/?p=159#comment-147 You know the funny thing - I've been seriously considering going back to Debian, Ubuntu is getting a bit bloated, a bit annoying, a bit too much auto-conf-y. I did, even, consider Gentoo (only briefly!). Randall Munroe's insights are a bit close to the bone sometimes. :) On that note, I'm still trying to convince a friend of mine that <a href="http://xkcd.com/327/" rel="nofollow">SQL injection hacks</a> would be a good middle name for his new son. You know the funny thing - I’ve been seriously considering going back to Debian, Ubuntu is getting a bit bloated, a bit annoying, a bit too much auto-conf-y. I did, even, consider Gentoo (only briefly!).

Randall Munroe’s insights are a bit close to the bone sometimes. :)

On that note, I’m still trying to convince a friend of mine that SQL injection hacks would be a good middle name for his new son.

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