[News] Desktop GNU/Linux a Better Mac Than Mac OS X
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Switch to Ubuntu Linux not Apple Mac OS ,----[ Quote ] | So why are people not going over to Ubuntu? Beats me. If you are looking for | commercial technical support, Ubuntu does offer that. If you are looking at | extreme personalization options Ubuntu offers that, probably even more than | the Mac OS. If you are looking for easy upgrades to future versions, Ubuntu | offers that. If you are looking for ease of use, Ubuntu offers that. If you | are looking for robustness and security, Ubuntu is the best. Ubuntu can be | installed on all types of hardware and even on older hardware. Mac OS does | not offer this flexibility. | | The more I use Ubuntu, the more I fail to understand the lure of the Mac OS. | Is it the snob value or stupidity that make people consider a Mac over | Windows and not Ubuntu? `---- http://prosenjit23.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/switch-to-ubuntu-linux-not-apple-mac-os/ Recent: Dell Mini Inspiron 9 ,----[ Quote ] | I’m living the dream, I tell you! I’ve swapped my MacBook for a Dell Mini and | so far the experience has been pretty positive. `---- http://jonrob.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/dell-mini-inspiron-9/ Moving from Mac to Ubuntu: Why I’m switching ,----[ Quote ] | Why I’m leaving Mac | |    1. Crap file management.The Finder doesn’t work for me. No location bar |    and no tree strucure side panel makes it difficult to navigate folders and |    move f...

[News] Making Linux More Like OS X and OS X More Like Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mac OS X - Highly Customized Linux ,----[ Quote ] | Few players in the Linux arena creates their Linux distro to look like Mac OS | X or Windows.... | | Here I'm going to list some distro which looks like Mac OS. `---- http://linuxtreat.blogspot.com/2008/07/mac-os-x-highly-customized-linux.html A Linux User's Guide to Mac ,----[ Quote ] | Take a deep breath and repeat after me: A computer is just a tool. It is only | so good as it serves to make life better for users. A "better" life is | obviously not the same thing for everyone. For me, it means making my Mac | more like Linux, as I began to discuss in my last article. `---- http://www.ofb.biz/safari/article/474.html Yesterday: Ubuntu: Challenge the Mac ,----[ Quote ] | Normally I would just provide a Diigo link to this if it weren’t something | I’ve been saying a lot in talks. Over at InformationWeek, Serdar Yegulaip was | a piece called “Shuttleworth’s Ubuntu Ambitions: Challenge the Mac”. He | quotes Mark Shuttleworth saying in a Datamation article: | |     … our goal, very simply, is to make sure the Free software ecosystem can |     deliver a Mac OS-like experience, or an experience that will compete with |     the Mac OS. | | I think this is exactly right. It’s time to look past Windows, even with its | huge installed base, as any sort of “gold standard” (as Mark calls it), | especially for user interface. ...

[News] Mac OS X-Like Dock for GNU/Linux Reviewed by Linux.com
KXDocker: More than a task manager ,----[ Quote ] | The basic idea behind Mac OS X's Dock is that when you need an | application, you click on its icon on an on-screen bar, and the | application is launched (if it has not been yet) or switched to | (if it has). Stefano Zingarini has borrowed this concept for | KXDocker, a KDE variation of OS X's Dock (which is also usable | with GNOME and other desktop environments). `---- http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/12/28/1956207&from=rss Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VekgyKQoTeM&NR http://www.youtube.com/wa...

[News] Moving Toward Freedom, from Mac OS X to GNU/Linux
Linux Install Series Part 1: Why Install Linux on your Mac? ,----[ Quote ] | That is the question my fellow Mac users. In today's world we take | what we have for granted but we forget that we have freedom, we have | choice. And we need to take advantage of this. It is important to | realize that we are not limited to what is 'given' to us. Thus, Free | Software gives us the freedom to chose. `---- http://openengineering.blogspot.com/2006/12/linux-install-series-part-1-why-install.html Related quote: http://popagandhi.com/458/it-was-a-very-good-year/ ,----[ Quote ] | As a las...

[News] Guide and Tips for Dumping Mac OS X for GNU/Linux Desktop
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux ,----[ Quote ] | Of course you might be thinking “OS X is supposed | to be the most user-friendly OS available, so | wouldn’t migrating to Linux be even more | difficults?” Not exactly. There are certain | elements of OS X that inherently make the process | of migrating to Linux easier than when migrating | from Windows. Take, for instance, the mounting of | images and drives. This task is completely | obfuscated from the Windows user, but the OS X user | actually knows to unmount a drive before removal. | But what about simple, every day usage? How do you | make that more understandable for one moving from | OS X to Linux? Let’s find out. `---- http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/14/five-tips-to-help-ease-the-migration-from-mac-to-linux/ Recent: Mac computers are restrictive. ,----[ Quote ] | There are amazing PC laptop computers that you can buy for $600 | comparing to Apple latops that are usually around $1300 and more. | Apple computers are overpriced, proprietary, restrictive and | protectionist. This might not be a good direction to be heading | into. Could Apple prove to be even more restrictive and opressive | than Microsoft? `---- http://www.idreamoflinux.com/2009/09/mac-computers-are-restrictive.html Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6? ,----[ Quote ] | Of the 26 tests shown in this article, Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" was the | clear w...

[News] Mac OS X Users Leave Apple and Come to Desktop GNU/Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From OS X to Ubuntu: 2 Years Later ,----[ Quote ] | I have to say that over the last couple of years, | I’ve really come to love Ubuntu. Until recently, | I rarely felt the need to go back to Windows or | OS X (I’ll tell you more about that in another | blog post). I’ve been generally pleased with each | new release of Ubuntu and enjoy seeing the | incremental improvements. Ubuntu has come an | unbelievable way since I first tried it almost 5 | years ago. `---- http://www.starryhope.com/linux/ubuntu/2010/os-x-to-ubuntu-2-years-later/ Matt Asay Sees the Light ,----[ Quote ] | Oh well, better late than never. The year of | GNU/Linux on the desktop has come and gone, he | agrees, and we will go forward to much greater | accomplishments. `---- http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/02/19/matt-asay-sees-the-light/ Recent: There and back again. Linux to Mac ,----[ Quote ] | I now have Ubuntu 9.10 running on my | MacBook Pro. Gnome-desktop, kubuntu-destop, | xubuntu-desktop are all installed. I like | desktop options, but prefer KDE 4. I can | switch between apps, terminals, connect to | the network and print. I have not seen one | spinning beach ball. I am much more | productive. I am so happy to have Amorok | back to manage my music, and KDE to manage | my desktop, and konsole as a terminal | application, and, and, and… I am just so | much happier. | | [...] | | Would I buy another Mac for myself, just | for the hardware? No. ...

[News] Apple's Mac OS X is Being Dumped for GNU/Linux Desktops
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No Apple computers for me ,----[ Quote ] | I had been a apple computer user for the | past 5 years and immensely enjoyed the | hardware and the software. But, all good | things come at a price. Apple's price for a | polished user experience has lately turned | out to be user freedom. | | [...] | | All said, in the end, there is only one | thing to do for me. Stick with Freedom and | give up Apple. So, as of yesterday night, I | have migrated all music from iTunes to | Ubuntu (Rhythmbox player). `---- http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2010/03/no_apple_computers_for_me.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink Open one way or another ,----[ Quote ] | We’ve covered our concerns about Apple’s | control issues, and we’ve also highlighted | how the company is creating opportunity for | more open alternatives to capture | developers, mindshare and yes, believe it | or not, consumers. This is the picture we | foresaw in our 2008 report, Mobility | Matters, where we described the first | Android phone, the G1, not as an Apple | iPhone killer, but an impressive first step | and a sign of an oncoming onslaught of | iPhone alternatives, all with openness | advantages for hardware manufacturers and | wireless carriers that can maintain or | create their own brands, and also openness | advantages for developers and users in the | software available for the devices. `---- http:/...

[News] GNU/Linux Desktop Experience Beats Apple's Mac OS X
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why Linux is Better than Mac (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love apt-get and debuild) ,----[ Quote ] | However, if you know what you are doing, Macs Stink! This is really true if | you are into open source software, because it is almost impossible to compile | someone else’s code on a Mac, even if they wrote it for Mac. `---- http://www.scottgrizzard.com/blog/2009/05/29/why-linux-is-better-than-mac-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-apt-get-and-debuild/ Recent: - From OSX to Ubuntu ,----[ Quote ] | So far I’m not really ...

[News] Desktop Survey (Eclipse): GNU/Linux: 27%, Windows: 64%, Mac OS X: 6.9%
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GNU/Linux Eclipses Windows – for Eclipse Users ,----[ Quote ] | For me, the highlight is the following: | | Developers appear to be shifting away from Microsoft Windows to Linux and Mac | OSX for their development operating system. 26.9% of respondents cite Linux | was as primary desktop operating system, representing a 7 percentage point | increase from 2007. Though Windows is still the dominant development OS at | 64%, it has decreased 10 percentage points from 2007. The most popular Linux | variant of choice among developers is Ubuntu, w...

[News] [Linux] Linux More Secure Than Mac OS X, Windows
How secure are Linux, Window and Mac OS? ,----[ Quote ] | Overall it looks like the Linux kernel turns out to be the most | secure system. Not only does it have virtually no security holes | that lead to system access, it's also very resilient to remote | attacks, two areas where both Windows and Mac OS X aren't doing | very well. `---- http://www.masuran.org/node/29 Lots of nice charts on the page. Good summary. Related: Linux hacks rare as hens' teeth, says survey ,----[ Quote ] | Adding more fuel to the Linux versus Windows fire, a US research firm | this week released a ...

[News] [Linux] Man Chooses Linux Over Mac OS X, Windows
Which OS for Ruby on Rails development? ,----[ Quote ] | I've had experience using Linux servers (no GUIs), so I figured I | could always drop back to the command line if something broke and | I've had to once or twice during installations. But overall I have | been pleasantly surprised at how civil an experience it has been. `---- http://falkayn.blogspot.com/2007/05/which-os-for-ruby-on-rails-development.html ...

[News] New PMP Linux-based and Works Well with GNU/Linux Desktops
River + Linux= Kick A*s PMP! ,----[ Quoet | iRiver doesn't miss a chance to say something to the geek masses. This time, | while they're working on the P10 portable media player, they’re also | developing a cool Linux based PMP. Besides working great with Linux, the new | PMP also features a tethered docking station, as well as a detachable mobile | unit. `---- http://news.softpedia.com/news/iRiver-Linux-Kick-Ass-PMP-70458.shtml Related: Motorola leaves Linux users in the lurch with its Linux smartphone ,----[ Quote ] | When Motorola released its smartphone running linux...

[News] GNU/Linux More Polished Then Windows, Mac OS X
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The main problem with Windows Vista ,----[ Quote ] | On top of this, Vista wasn't fully baked when it was released. The huge | number of articles that suggested waiting for the first service pack is a | testament to that. | | In fairness, the same can be said of Apple. Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) too, was | far from fully baked when it was released. In this regard at least, Linux | shines. There is no marketing department or sales department at Linux | headquarters pushing the operating system out the door before the programmers | say it's ready. In fact, there are no Linux headquarters at all. `---- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-10034486-33.html Related: Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard ,----[ Quote ] | Aaaand … poof! | | The directory on our Desktop is now gone. The directory shown in the C$ mount | will only contain files that were copied entirely before the connection was | disrupted, but nothing more (in the demonstration case, there’s only one file | in "test", so nothing was copied successfully).   | | [...] | | Where’s the rest of our data? | | Apple, please FTFF already. This is unacceptable. `---- http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-data-loss-bug-in-leopard/ Leopard early adopters suffer for the rest of us ,----[ Quote ] | Mac OS X 10.5.1 will likely arrive around Thanksgiving with fixes for most of | the problems encountered by the brave early adopters. `---- ...

[News] GNU/Linux Beats Mac OS X in Areas
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ubuntu shines where OS X fails ,----[ Quote ] | Coming from a lifetime as a Mac user you can imagine that I am rather | trusting of the OS, especially as a creative tool. In recent years, as Apple | has evolved OS X, it has continued to surprise me (in a good sort of way.) | | Regarding their OS X server, given that I have used it since 2001, I was | rather excited to try it out in my new web software venture. My impression | was it would be as easy to run a web site on OS X server as it is easy to | manage a creative project. | | Wro...

[News] Mac OS X Does Not Look Better Than GNU/Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mac4lin - Give that Mac OS X look to Linux ,----[ Quote ] | Mac4Lin is best Mac like User Interface for Gnome and Xfce desktops like | Ubuntu/Xubuntu, Fedora, Debian and others, that will take care of absolutely | everything (from icons, themes to usplash – loading window at start) to look | just like Mac. With this package comes: dock, the GTK theme, Emerald theme | (3d window borders), new icons, new wallpapers, taskbar image, GDM themes, | cursors, themes for Pidgin, Firefox, music players and system sounds and you | will be amazed of fl...

[News] Modern GNU/Linux Compared to Mac OS X
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 How Does Ubuntu 9.04 Measure Up to Mac OS X? ,----[ Quote ] | Over all, Ubuntu 9.04 averages a B+ in this comparison against Mac OS X | usability. `---- http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7419/1.html Recent: - From OSX to Ubuntu ,----[ Quote ] | So far I’m not really missing that much - clearly OSX has a certain feel of | slickness to it but in the last couple of years Ubuntu has become much more | refined and easier to use. More an more works without intervention - I’d long | held an opinion that using linux was like owning a vintage beetle — It’s | great but you have to spend all weekend tinkering with it to keep it on the | road. For me using windows was like that, as I found more and more time was | sucked into keeping my PC running. When I switched to OSX I found my | productivity went up. So far with Linux it’s too early to tell whether I’m as | productive though I’m fairly confident that I’m finding enough software that | performs well and is intuitive to use that I should be every bit as “at home” | on Linux as I was on the mac. Plus with the added bonus that I’ve got a much | better set of linux tools (rather than bsd) under the hood and not to mention | that running an open source operating system is a much better prospect long | term. `---- http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/04/05/from-osx-to-ubuntu/ Mac OS is better than Ubuntu Linux: A myth ,----[ Quote ] | The myths | |   * Ubuntu does not have...

[News] Salix (GNU/Linux) OS Works Really Well
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Salix OS 13.0.2a: Surprisingly Fresh ,----[ Quote ] | Salix is a solid distribuiton built on a | Slackware foundation. It does what many among | the Slackware faithful would consider heresy: | makes Slackware behave more like a modern | Linux operating system that's simpler to | install and manage. I for one welcome our | heretical Bonsai overlords. | | If I'm ever in the mood for a lightweight | Slack-based distribution with minimal fuss | involved, Salix has made my short list. I look | forward to seeing future releases from this | group. `---- http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/salix13.htm Recent: Salix OS 13.0.2 Gets 64-bit Edition ,----[ Quote ] | George Vlahavas from the Salix OS development | team proudly announced two days before | Christmas that Salix 13.0.2 was available for | download on mirrors worldwide. The good news | for all the fans of this Slackware-based | Linux distribution is that it now has a 64- | bit edition, which is backwards compatible | with the Slackware64 operating system. | Salix64 offers an easier way to install the | XFCE desktop environment, and a software | repository with lots of packages. The Salix | developers also prepared a software | repository with dependency information for | both 32-bit and 64-bit Slackware packages. `---- http://news.softpedia.com/news/Salix-OS-13-0-2-Gets-64-bit-Edition-130609.shtml Salix 13.0.2 is ready! ,----[ Quote ] | The Salix team is prou...

[News] Suggestions for Upgrading from Mac OS X to GNU/Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Migration from Mac to Linux ,----[ Quote ] | When in OS X (and in Windows) the default action | is a very predictable beast. You want to make | sure this is mimicked in Linux. In GNOME you can | right click a file, select Open With, and then | set that as the default application for that | type of file. As much as this might seem second | nature, for OS X users this is simply not an | issue. Having everything so well integrated is | not a feature on OS X, it’s a requirement. So | make sure everything works exactly as expected | BEFORE the OS X user touches their Linux box. `---- http://blogwire.co.cc/2009/10/migration-from-mac-to-linux/ Recent: My development setup ,----[ Quote ] | Base software | | * Arch Linux – it’s my 6 day with this distro | actually, I’m a Gentoo fanatic but from time to | time I try to use something different. I usually | go back to Gentoo after a month or so. We’ll see | how I’ll end up now. So far I really like Arch, | it’s extremely lightweight, fast and stable. | Software availability is as good as in Gentoo. | It’s also easy to make your own packages which | is crucial for Ruby developers since it happens | that we need various non-standard stuff, like | let’s say Nginx with Passenger support. I’ve got | a feeling that this time I won’t go back to | Gentoo | | * KDE – it’s my desktop environment and one | of the most important...

[News] GNU/Linux Outperforms Mac OS X in Most Latest Benchmarks
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mac OS X 10.6.2 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks ,----[ Quote ] | Ubuntu 9.10 (with the 32-bit and 64-bit | wins being added together) had won about | ten of the sixteen benchmarks in this Mac | OS X vs. Ubuntu Linux comparison. Mac OS X | 10.6.2 though had a particularly strong | advantage in the heavy computational tests | like Crafty, the ray-tracing benchmarks, | and PostgreSQL. Snow Leopard, however, had | performed quite poorly with the NVIDIA | graphics due to the regression we pointed | out earlier in this article. Hopefully the | bug that is seriously hampering the NVIDIA | OpenGL performance on Mac OS X when | running at different resolutions will be | fixed in the near future. `---- http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=macosx106_ubuntu910_final&num=1 OS x won't run on commodity hardware. The Case for Non-Free Firmware By Default ,----[ Quote ] | Ubuntu comes with a nice application | called “Hardware Drivers” (a.k.a. jockey- | gtk) for installing proprietary drivers | for wireless cards and other devices that | lack open-source support. This is great, | except when your only connection to the | Internet is wireless and you have no way | to download the driver or firmware you | need. Here’s why this situation should | change. `---- http://www.workswithu.com/2009/11/17/the-case-for-non-free-firmware-by-default/ Recent: Fedora 12 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks ,----[ Quote ...

[News] Musician Leaves Mac OS X to Embrace GNU/Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From Mac to Linux: A Musician Convert ,----[ Quote ] | Now Peter Kirn has captured Cascone's conversion story on | createdigitalmusic.com. Interesting about the article is not only the facts | of Cascone's conversion, but the comments accompanying it that contain | numerous tips and information on sound processing under Linux. `---- http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/News/From-Mac-to-Linux-A-Musician-Convert Recent: How Does Ubuntu 9.04 Measure Up to Mac OS X? ,----[ Quote ] | Over all, Ubuntu 9.04 averages a B+ in this comparison against Mac OS X | usability. `---- http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7419/1.html - From OSX to Ubuntu ,----[ Quote ] | So far I’m not really missing that much - clearly OSX has a certain feel of | slickness to it but in the last couple of years Ubuntu has become much more | refined and easier to use. More an more works without intervention - I’d long | held an opinion that using linux was like owning a vintage beetle — It’s | great but you have to spend all weekend tinkering with it to keep it on the | road. For me using windows was like that, as I found more and more time was | sucked into keeping my PC running. When I switched to OSX I found my | productivity went up. So far with Linux it’s too early to tell whether I’m as | productive though I’m fairly confident that I’m finding enough software that | performs well and is intuitive to use that I should be every bit as “at ...

[News] User Dumps Mac OS X for GNU/Linux with KDE4
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There and back again. Linux to Mac ,----[ Quote ] | I now have Ubuntu 9.10 running on my | MacBook Pro. Gnome-desktop, kubuntu-destop, | xubuntu-desktop are all installed. I like | desktop options, but prefer KDE 4. I can | switch between apps, terminals, connect to | the network and print. I have not seen one | spinning beach ball. I am much more | productive. I am so happy to have Amorok | back to manage my music, and KDE to manage | my desktop, and konsole as a terminal | application, and, and, and… I am just so | much happier. | | [...] | | Would I buy another Mac for myself, just | for the hardware? No. While the trackpad is | cool, other companies have caught up on the | piece of hardware. The keyboard may be | enough to make me come back to the | hardware, but I doubt it. `---- http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2009/11/there-and-back-again-linux-to-mac/ Power to the GNU! Podcast Season 1 Episode 21 ,----[ Quote ] | In this episode: Firefox turns 5, Microsoft | allegedly borrows some GPL code and the Fat | Elf is no more. We talk about what our | perfect Linux distribution would look like | and ask whether everyone should be | compelled to contribute to free software | projects. `---- http://www.tuxradar.com/content/podcast-season-1-episode-21 Recent: Migration from Mac to Linux ,----[ Quote ] | When in OS X (and in Windows) the default action | is a very predictable beast. You want to make | ...

[News] What Sets Apart GNU/Linux from Windows and Mac OS X
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What Linux needs ,----[ Quote ] | Because what Linux needs is people who want | to use Linux. I said a long time ago that if | Linux was Windows, nobody would need Linux. | By corollary, if what you need is Windows, | don’t tell me Linux has shortcomings. Linux | doesn’t need application X, it needs someone | who is so prepossessed with the idea of | creating application X that they spearhead an | independent movement to duplicate it, gather | a few like-minded and talented peers, and as | a group they roll up their sleeves and get to | work making application X. `---- http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/what-linux-needs/ Apple: Simplicity taken too far? ,----[ Quote ] | One could discard such fulminating, except | for the fact that Google (with Android) and | other open-source communities are | increasingly focusing on delivering open- | source software that prioritizes ease of | use, as Canonical's latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS | (aka Lucid Lynx) release shows. `---- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10471385-16.html Linux Journal Insider - May 2010 http://www.linuxjournal.com/podcast/linux-journal-insider-may-2010 Recent: Ubuntu Is Pretty Cool (My Linux Experiment) ,----[ Quote ] | * I had an old Windows XP laptop that was slow and | required constant attention. One of the great | things about almost any Linux distribution is that | is small and efficient. It is often recommended as...

[News] Why Mac OS X Can Never Match GNU/Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why we like Linux desktops ,----[ Quote ] | With the exception of computer games, is there an activity that can be done | inside of Windows or OS X that cannot be done equally well on a Linux | machine? `---- http://www.zdnet.com.au/blogs/patch-monday/soa/Why-we-like-Linux-desktops/0,2001107879,339297848,00.htm Ubuntu- Apple is a different ball game. ,----[ Quote ] | Mac computers are hugely expensive and anybody that goes in to buy a Mac | computer is not someone that considers cost in buying a computer. Most Mac | users are people that have seen a certain perceived value in the extra cash | they pay for a Mac computer as against what they would have paid for a | Windows PC. | | [...] | | There is no doubt that Ubuntu is a powerful alternative to both Windows and | Mac OS, a fact that most Windows users attest to after trying Ubuntu, but | that message must be wrapped differently in order to deliver to Mac OS users. | Canonical must not focus solely on the monetary cost of Ubuntu as a wedge to | use in penetrating the Mac OS market. The theme of the strategy must rather | focus on the core strengths of Ubuntu that will appeal to Mac users. `---- http://sinaisix.blogspot.com/2009/08/ubuntu-apple-is-different-ball-game.html First Psystar, now Quo, but what about Linux? Enter Mond Computers. ,----[ Quote ] | No, not Linux OS, not Ubuntu or Fedora or anything of the sort. The Mond OS. | Remember, the...

GNU/Linux Desktop Has Been Ahead of Mac OS X and Windows for Ages
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is the Linux Desktop "On Par" With Mac and Windows? No Way! ,----[ Quote ] | Where is the Linux desktop going, and where should it go? This is a hot topic, | and an important one. Unfortunately the discussion usually starts from the | wrong premise, that the Linux desktop has only recently achieved parity with | its Mac OS X and Windows cousins. Not so! The Linux desktop has been superior | since its early days, and would have to go backwards to achieve parity. `---- http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/483462:is-the-linux-desktop-qon-parq-with-mac-and-windows-no-way -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAk5KXPoACgkQU4xAY3RXLo57hACeM/dVCfT7V1/UDVe5hZaVljh7 PdEAliJtvll8OgWakyGo7F0jKUSiG1Q= =dKzd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > Is the Linux Desktop "On Par" With Mac and Windows? No Way! > > ,----[ Quote ] >| Where is the Linux desktop going, and where should it go? This is a hot topic, >| and an important one. Unfortunately the discussion usually starts from the >| wrong premise, that the Linux desktop has only recently achieved parity with >| its Mac OS X and Windows cousins. Not so! The Linux desktop has been superior >| since its early days, and would have to go backwards to achieve parity. That is definitely my opinion! > `---- > > http://www.linux.com/le...