[wplug] OS X on Linux?

[Michael H. Semcheski]

On 7/22/07, n schembr <nschembr at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm not awake yet, so I'm going to start a war.....:)

I don't want to start a flaming religious war either... Too nice a day.

In my (limited) experience, Redhat and their community has been
putting out some pretty nice products.  As long as you stick to the
[limited] supported repositories, things 'just work' acceptably.

I've found that with many of the later releases, whether its CentOS,
Ubuntu, Fedora, or whatever, when you start dabbling in RPM's that
aren't part of the officially supported distribution, its only a
matter of time before you start having problems.

I recently removed all Microsoft software from my house, and replaced
it with Fedora.  Now, the only non-free software is OSX.  I couldn't
be happier with Fedora.


> I hope that with Apple's push into the the cell phone market that they will
> open up the platform and start sell  OSX  for Commodity  Hardware.

That's everyone's dream, except for Apple shareholder's.  Apple still
has a very lucrative hardware business.  They make 75% of the profit
that Dell makes, on 33% of the revenue.

(Of course, Microsoft makes as much profit as Dell makes revenue, so
its not like the OS business is bad...  Just that Apple has shown no
guts in going after it.)


> Mac Hardware sells for a premium  in a commodity  market, but it all works
> out of the box.  The Mac book pro will  be one of the first laptop with 4
> core.  I can see myself shelling out the 2G to replace my aging Toshiba.

Its funny, because by and large I've heard good things about the Mac.
But not all good things.  A coworker got an iMac from his parents, to
use to test some software he had written, and he couldn't stop talking
about how much it sucked, how slow it was, how no printers worked,
etc.

There are borked up OSX installations out there, just not as many.
But I'm not convinced that its got a lower number of defects than the
alternatives.

Mike