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Oct 30, 2004, 12:38 AM
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Linux is the same an Mac.
isnt the Linux the same as the Mac OSX?
Linux is an imitation of UNIX Mac OSX is built on UNIX Mac OSX Panther is the GUI for UNIX KDE,GNOME etc. are the GUI for LINUX so technically, that means that we can install Linux on the Apple machines and there is nothing special about the Apple OSX. Why pay 100 pounds for Panther when you can get Fedora free. |
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Oct 30, 2004, 12:47 AM
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A Hyundai is a internal combustion vehicle like a Bently, so why pay $235,000 for a Bently when a $16,000 Hyundai will work just as well. It's called user experience... sometimes you have to pay a little more for the luxury items that are included with the package. --- But why buy a Apple HW when there are white-box Linux PPC computers? Because the Linux PPCs are generations behind the Apple HW, just like the SW.
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Oct 30, 2004, 01:14 AM
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You can install YellowDog Linux on a Mac pretty simply.
The real question is... Why?
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Oct 30, 2004, 01:41 AM
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But yeah there are a few distro's of linux on mac, they have no software... sooo doesn't make much sense... whatever. 
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Oct 30, 2004, 02:01 AM
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i will take the trollbait on this one...
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some computer users would rather spend the majority of their time using their computers than configuring, debugging, or maintaining their systems. i know it sounds forward-thinking, but trust me, it works. mac and linux are different trunks on the unix tree. mac came down from the bsd trunk and linus torvalds rolled his own unix-like kernel in linux. but they co-oped with the FSF (free software fanatics) for all the system level libs and C compiler. well that was back in the early days, now there is more stuff available, hell even intel has a linux compiler now. pretty spiffy. i think linux is wonderful. you can cobble together a really custom rig to do most anything you need. file server, web server, firewall, music server, home desktop, etc. but you will always pay a price to use linux. it is called, configuration and debugging HELL. sure there are some nice distros that have "very few" sharp edges but it has been my experience that they are slow and bloated, kinda like Microsoft Windows. you have to really get into the internals of linux, get dirty and customize it to really leverage its advantages fully. that was fine and wonderful back in college. but now i am tired. i am cranky. i don't want to muck with config files or find the bug(s) in some kernel driver source code or application code. at some point i just want to read my e-mail, surf my news sites, and listen to my music. cue mac here. to each their own i suppose, and sometimes you have to figure out your own deal, your own path. so it boils down to this... where do you want to go today? ahahahaha jaromski |
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Oct 30, 2004, 05:16 AM
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Right place to do the wrong observation... I liked better the "Mac os x on x86" thread ...
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Oct 30, 2004, 06:34 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 06:39 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 07:42 AM
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You won't find many precompiled binaries, but almost all linux software is opensource. And then its only to build it.. configure, make, make install .. Also, Yellowdog comes with very much software these days.. But its no use since you can run, those apps in x11..
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Oct 30, 2004, 09:22 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 09:53 AM
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os x = userfriendly and a joy to use
linux = a pain in the a**, how can they make it so hard to install something oh and it doesnt look anywhere near as nice
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Oct 30, 2004, 09:57 AM
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os x = pre-assembled furniture linux = box of wood, elmer's glue, readme file with plans, and a swiss army knife
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:04 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:10 AM
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os x = nice to use whether you know what you are doing or not and lots of possibilities if you do also linux = if you know a lot its fine, if you know quite a bit or less you stand no chance, user friendly it is not and that is where its problems lie. they need to settle on one gui and one or two distros if it is to become anywhere near to being a viable alternative
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:13 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:17 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:18 AM
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If you get an older Mac for free which could run Panther, then, yes, in that case you'd be able to save money by installing Linux. Unless, of course, you value your time any, in which case the extra time spent trying to get a Linux distro up and running makes it "cost" more than Panther - which will run you less than a hundred pounds anyway.
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:23 AM
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:23 AM
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Linux relies upon X11, therefore all apps have to be command line or X11. Mac OS X apps can be command line, Aqua, or X11. Good luck running Final Cut Pro etc on Linux.
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:28 AM
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 In OS X I know where to find the preferences for all my apps, because it's always in the same place. In Linux it can be in any number of places (like a certain popular OS whose name I don't feel like typing right now.) Icons don't always make a lot of sense to me at first glance like they should. Also, I've the preferences in KDE to be a disaster; they're laid out totally hap-hazardly over a series of menus that make it unessessarily confusing. I do like Linux though. I was a Linux user (Mandrake then Debian) before coming to OS X 
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:31 AM
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 Definitely not one of the younger crowd that actually can act mature, like some of the other teens we have. They don't last long with these type of threads.
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Oct 30, 2004, 10:47 AM
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This thread is hysterical http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded...llinglaugh.gif, there really isn't much more to say other than that, that hasn't already been said. |
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Oct 30, 2004, 12:58 PM
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Future version of Linux
Linux is a hard sell for the Mac for me. I feel like I am using a future version of Linux by just using Panther.
Linux is appealing on Intel because of the alternatives to Linux on Intel and the price of the hardware is dirt cheap. |
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Oct 30, 2004, 01:21 PM
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How about you just use linux and be happy in your own life, and let us use OSX and be happy in our lives?
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Oct 30, 2004, 02:37 PM
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This is chiefly predicated on the indefensible position that all operating systems that run are equal and all GUIs that exist are the same...I'm not even going to bother trying to explain why that's not the case...I never thought I would have to.
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