[wplug] Survey questions - Mac hardware/OS X/Linux??

[Michael A. Smith]

I'm a long-time linux user, who recently got his first modern Apple 
(back in October). I intended to dual boot Gentoo Linux on it next to OS 
X, but I never did, mostly because I found I could do everything I 
wanted to do from Aqua, anyhow.

Maybe some day I'll do it, but no, I don't currently have a dual-OS Mac.

Bill Moran wrote:

>Jennifer Landefeld <jennsbl at jennsbl.com> wrote:
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>>Hey all,
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>>I was in a nice seminar by a couple local Apple folk. They asked a 
>>question I can't answer about our group.
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>>I know I've been a Mac hardware user and work primarily in OS X these 
>>days. At one point I did load (dual boot) Yellow Dog on one of my 
>>systems.
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>>Now to the questions:
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>>(1) How many folk in our group are Mac hardware & OS X users with a 
>>partition for Linux?
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>>(2) Do we have any users who bought new/used Mac equipment to load just 
>>Linux by itself (as opposed to Intel/AMD)? What flavor?
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>It seems like most WPLUG users who use Mac are using OS X.  The geeky
>ones generally use the BSD underpinnings that exist on OS X to do 
>their unixy stuff, and thus don't seem to have a need for a seperate
>partition.
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>(As a long-time FreeBSD user, I've been very happy with the overall
>feel of OS X)
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>>The Apple folks questions made me curious so I thought I'd ask. (-:
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>>My initial response to them was that I'd venture most of use using 
>>Linux were looking for the least expensive alternative for computing 
>>and chose "cheap" hardware and didn't necessarily load purchased 
>>flavors of Linux (though many of us do buy Redhat, SuSE, etc.)
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>I can't speak for "most of us".  But as for me, I don't use FreeBSD
>because it's "cheap", or even because it's less expensive.  I use
>it because it's the best quality OS I know of.  I work similarly with
>hardware.
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