Murgi wrote:
> < But, Ubuntu / Kubuntu do most of the same and it's free ....
> 
> Yea, I know… but I also know a couple of guys who spent weeks with these 
> Linx offsprings until they realized that they got stuck on various 
> issues. Besides, not everybody is a guru or wants o be a pioneer. IMHO, 
> all these Linux based softwares are still far from being consumer 
> friendly, and several pieces of older hardware lack the required drivers.
> However my reason for buying Leopard is the hardware I have. The MacBook 
> – even when using it as a PC – needs the Mac OS, since it controls the 
> built-in keyboard functions.

You _may_ want to Google the ZD blogs and the Must Read News for 
commentary on the release of Leopard before you decide whether to 
purchase now, or wait a bit.  My ZD.net M-RN of this a.m. had four 
articles about problems that have cropped up.  None of them seem any 
worse than the worst that MS has managed to perpetrate in their first 
releases of XP or Vista, but they are worse than what the Apfelkopffs 
have been telling people they should have to ever expect from Jobs and Co.

BTW, the v.7.04 or 7.10 Ubuntu / Kubuntu are no worse to set up for 
bilingual use than W2K was and, if you stick to European languages, 
they're even easier.  I have been having repeated headaches because I 
want OS menus to be in English but I still want Kubuntu to handle 
Japanese whenever and wherever I want without any mojibake.  They're 
still not there, yet.  I am working on installing a virtual PC to run 
the WIN Japanese-language software I cannot live without, but even that 
isn't perfect.  Right now, the best answer still seems to be running 
English programs on the Japanese OS, like before W2K, but I am not happy 
having the underlying programming spitting out messages that I have to 
hesitate and read carefully instead of having them pop up in English and 
be instantly understandable.

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CL