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Linux Journal Likes Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the but-it-is-not-free dept.

sobchak writes "In an article from the latest issue of Linux Journal, Doc Searls and Brent Simmons review Mac OS X. It's a fair and balanced analysis, but is a definite thumbs up for Mac OS X from (yet another) respected Linux source. They stop just short of calling the new OS 'developer nirvana,' but did say, 'Last week we put Mac OS X on a Titanium laptop. It blew our minds.'"

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  1. blown away? by jchristopher · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    'Last week we put Mac OS X on a Titanium laptop. It blew our minds.

    Since, to my knowledge, there is no Linux distribution with out of the box support for Sound, Airport, and the Radeon video card, how exactly did the install "blow their minds"? Perhaps they were blown away by the amount of tweaking they'd have to do to get everything working AFTER the install.

    So far, I've tried 2 different distributions on my iBook2. Neither is able to make the internal airport card work via DHCP. There's a lot of promise for Linux on PPC hardware, but honestly, it's not ready yet unless you like tweaking. (Compared to, for example, RedHat on a Dell laptop, where everything "just works").

  2. Re: All Apple Laptops have built-in ADB Keyboards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ADB? ADB is long gone...

    Unfortunately, you are wrong. ADB is not long gone. All Apple laptops still have built-in ADB keyboards.

    And even more unfortunately, if you are a unix old-timer who wants and needs the Ctrl key to the left of the 'A', for ergonomic reasons, you cannot effectively use an Apple laptop without carrying around an extra USB keyboard with you. Carrying extra hardware with your laptop is supremely undesirable.

    This will only change if and when Apple re-designs their laptop motherboards to use a built-in USB keyboard, and finally dumps the legacy ADB keyboards. Let's hope it happens soon!