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

Doug Green diego96 at mac.com
Thu Feb 24 20:42:56 EST 2005


I'm a mac guy for my personal computer. At work, I have a PC with linux
(RedHat7.2)...  It's kinda funny, because some apps are only available for
XP in my line of work. The solution was to get a pc and dual boot at work.
Meanwhile, my home solution is OSX and Virtual PC. Over a period of time (3
years now?), I've become a major OSX snob... When wanted/needed, I've got a
BSD under the hood.

Overall, I think Apple did a great job and has delivered the best of both
worlds.

-Doug



On 2/24/05 5:22 PM, "Jennifer Landefeld" <jennsbl at jennsbl.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I was in a nice seminar by a couple local Apple folk. They asked a
> question I can't answer about our group.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Now to the questions:
> 
> (1) How many folk in our group are Mac hardware & OS X users with a
> partition for Linux?
> 
> (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?
> 
> The Apple folks questions made me curious so I thought I'd ask. (-:
> 
> 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.)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jenn
> 
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