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Ask Solem Hoel [ask@startsiden.no] said: > It's sad to come from a free software environment > and find that the things you rely on come as dozens of small > programs you don't know the reliability of for $20 each. Ok, besides having the source at your disposal to modify things as you see fit, how does this differ from open source software? A lot of open source stuff for OS X is functionally equivalent to shareware for me: it involves APIs I don't recognize and would rather not have to learn, so I'm never going to touch the source. Then the only difference between open source and shareware becomes whether the author asks for help coding or a few bucks. > Now if there were a console mode I could use that instead > of a virtual desktop for programming. > The terminal is still painfully slow, or maybe it doesn't > support people that write faster than the refresh rate :) I don't know what kind of system you're using, but I'm on a 333Mhz Lombard, and Terminal seems pretty snappy for me. I've never been able to outtype it. -packy -- Packy Anderson Dardan Web Associates packy@dardan.comThread Previous