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| forquare1 wrote: Would even ben good to see others in here that use Windows or OS X but want help with OpenOffice or other things... | |
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I object!!! We don't want no stinking OS X here
*waits for the flame war that is brewing in the air to unleash
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| Author: | gavomatic57 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Hurah! |
A new forum for us open sorcerers! |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! |
*dances* So, I guess people can get going about compiling stuff, looking for drivers, other help and bits...Would even ben good to see others in here that use Windows or OS X but want help with OpenOffice or other things... |
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| Author: | koli [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:04 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! | |||||||||
I object!!! We don't want no stinking OS X here *waits for the flame war that is brewing in the air to unleash
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| Author: | gavomatic57 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! |
It's ok, OSX is welcome, but they have a forum of their own. There is still a thriving freeware/foss community making apps for OSX - for instance my favourite RAW converter - Rawstudio - is linux and OSX only - no Windows version. |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! |
Underneath OS X is UNIX (though Apple have broken it somewhat), which means it's not a whole world away (underneath) from Linux... Plus Apple do contribute somewhat. Don't the control the development of CUPS now? Not like those queer Windows users :wink 
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! |
Damnit! I forgot to grab TinBath's Howto threads... |
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| Author: | gavomatic57 [ Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:21 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! | |||||||||
The difference is mainly that linux and proper BSD/solaris distributions are open - not locked down in any way. I love the flexibility of being able to swap between window managers whenever I feel like and to add new and interesting repositories and browse "add/remove programs"! CUPS is now Apple? Whatever next - Apparently they hired the developer and bought the code. Hope they don't do anything silly/anti-competitive - it's still under the GNU GPL license though. I wouldn't call what apple do "contributing" more like "buying up". |
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| Author: | adidan [ Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:50 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Hurah! | |||||||||
Pants, wasn't there a huge thing written by big_D as well? |
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| Author: | forquare1 [ Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:09 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yeah, I think there probably was...I'll grab it all from the other forum next week... |
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