7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
3:43 p.m.
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:01, Teo Zenios wrote:
Today the only thing going for Apple is OSX (tightly
written to the
hardware), and that is not going to change. People who don't like
piecing their machines together and going through driver hell will
stick to the Mac no matter what was under the hood. Lately a Mac is
for people who hate Microsoft and don't like messing with Linux
installs.
I disagree:
finnegpt at excalibur:~$ uname -snrmo ; grep machine /proc/cpuinfo
Linux excalibur 2.6.11.7 ppc64 GNU/Linux
machine : PowerMac7,3
I'm not necessarily a "typical" apple customer, but definitely not the
only one that likes to run Linux on their hardware. If you don't
believe me, look here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
Oh, and there's some "Linus Torvalds" guy that is said to have a G5 as
his main workstation; I'm pretty sure it doesn't run MacOS.
IMO MacOS is ok (though I have taken to being an Free/OSS software
snob), but the only reason I buy Apple is for their hardware. Linux +
Power(PC) == goodness.
Also, I know plenty of people that either use both Linux and MacOS.
Pat
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