nopelol56 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Iv know a few guys who would jump the Mac ship and move over to Linux if there were more apps available. Is this a misrepresentation or do some of u mac fan feel this way. Do you guys see Linux as an ally or a competitor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac15 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Neither, I know I'll get shot for this but honestly at the moment I'd rather run windows than linux. Thats just my personal preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMayhem Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I love linux, it is just not quite as nice as OS X yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billthy Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Neither, I know I'll get shot for this but honestly at the moment I'd rather run windows than linux. Thats just my personal preference. agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTallack Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Of the many systems I have, not one runs Linux. 3 Windows Machines, a Windows PocketPC, and 2 Mac OS Machines. I'll stick to my tried and true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron901 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Neither, I know I'll get shot for this but honestly at the moment I'd rather run windows than linux. Thats just my personal preference. same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macman87 Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Neither, I know I'll get shot for this but honestly at the moment I'd rather run windows than linux. Thats just my personal preference. ditto i love my os x :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerbero Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I use Linux on my router/server machine (no X11) and it's the perfect solution, but I wouldn't use it as an everyday OS. It's just too bothersome for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 what do mac people think of Lunix "LUNIX"... eh? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Iv know a few guys who would jump the Mac ship and move over to Linux if there were more apps available. Is this a misrepresentation or do some of u mac fan feel this way. Do you guys see Linux as an ally or a competitor? Hmm, look at my sig. I run both on my PowerBook. OS X seems just a tiny bit faster, but I'm sure that's because I haven't bothered to tweak the kernel in Linux yet. The default PPC kernel is not really optomized for PowerBook G3's at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aristotle-dude Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I would have to say that linux has a long way to go before it could be considered a competitor. They have to decide once and for all which windowing/gadget toolkit will be the dominant one on linux (either Gnome or KDE) and stick with it. They also need commercial apps. I don't know if this will happen anytime soon. There are just way to many distros and no agreed upon standard to build binaries against. Finally, I would have to say that the GNU licence is a major stumbling block for corporate acceptance and commerical development. It is not as "free" as the BSD licence. True, the GNU licence offers more protection for your code to keep it open source but it does not provide more freedom to developers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted April 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 1, 2004 Iv know a few guys who would jump the Mac ship and move over to Linux if there were more apps available. Is this a misrepresentation or do some of u mac fan feel this way. Do you guys see Linux as an ally or a competitor? OS/X gives you the advantage of Linux (running apache and other open source applications) while still allowing access to the full range of Macintosh software. Switching to Linux from Mac doesn't get you much (cheaper hardware?) but it does require that you give up a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Running a Mac seems the perfect 'in-tween' ... You have Mac OS X, and for mostly everything else, you have a X11 and Virtual PC. ... Suits me fine :) Linux IMO is too much hassle. I too would prefer to use Windows. One of the many reasons I use a Mac, is for simplicity / ease of use where-ever possible, going to Linux, would be mean IMO leap frogging Windows with regards to those points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misecia Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I run YellowDog Linux on my second iBook and it works great - even better than my old IBM thinkpad and Fedora :) I haven't tried to install Debian yet tho i really should to be able to get the best apps out there without having to compile source code everytime i want to install things, as FreshRPMs has a very limited PPC range of programs :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_daemon Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 I love Linux. I love OS X. I love BSD. I love anything that has a unix shell and at least a decent kernel. Linux on a Mac = Blazing speeds, in my opinion. Gentoo _flies_ on my G3 iBook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Linux is cool, lots of free software... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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