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

[adam stokes]

Interesting Configurations:

I have one of my Xserves running YellowDog Linux

Mostly cause a consol install of openBSD was just not something i could 
get done in the small timeframes i have to work in

but it works well enough

the Xserves were bought new a couple years ago and i have to say its a 
toss up whether Linux or Darwin/OSX is better or easier
there are more packages for Linux and the installs are more "normal" 
(ie things are where i expect them to be)

i also have some "preowned" sun hardware running OpenBSD, also very 
stable combination

i dont like things breaking

so i guess i get to be one of your people who is ~not~ looking for 
least expensive, I like that it works
and it does :-)

-adam

ps: my primary desktop is OSX

On Feb 24, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Jennifer Landefeld 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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