that guy who listed the steps about installing a d (Score 1)

that guy who listed the steps about installing a new hard drive on a linux machine was nuts. he was all "all you do is run fdisk, and then lp1 and blah blah blah"... trying to say it's so simple why make big deal out of apple's simplicity. well he is on crack. i am a programmer for god's sake and i have tried to become a linux user three times now... it's HARD. you can feel smugly superior because i feel that way, or you can realize your precious platform is going to remain a tiny niche that OS X is going to kill. i am a mac user and i have a huge interest in the *nix world. i write perl scripts and i would like to learn how to operate unix from the command line, and compile stuff, and use open source software. with Mac OS X I can finally get my foot in the door.

and for the other guy who said he doesn't understand what dave reynolds was saying about using the full power of unix on os x. reynolds isn't necessarily talking about using command line, he means great multitasking, memory protection, speed, symmetric multiprocessing, and under the hood stuff - PLUS the ability to get at the command line.

just my two cents.

john