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gavomatic57
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A new forum for us open sorcerers!
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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*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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koli
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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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gavomatic57
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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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forquare1
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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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forquare1
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Damnit! I forgot to grab TinBath's Howto threads...
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gavomatic57
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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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adidan
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Pants, wasn't there a huge thing written by big_D as well?
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jonbwfc I was behind her in a queue today - but I wouldn't describe it as 'bushy'.
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forquare1
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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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