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Take a Mac User to Lunch

Posted by pudge on from the any-place-that-has-good-steak-is-good-for-me dept.

A Slashdot reader writes "LinuxWorld is running a story explaining how Mac OS X may help break down the walls for non-Windows operating systems, including Linux."

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  1. In the server market? by r6144 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Although Mac (with Darwin) systems can do server things well, they are IMHO relatively new in the server world. I haven't heard of any Mac servers before this Xserve thing, and I believe many people also thinks (wrongly) that Macs are more desktop-ish than WinXP home.

    Reading the article, I can't see many things that make Xserve different from conventional BSD or Linux systems, and maybe there are still some server tools for linux or bsd that are still not ported, so I find it rather unimpressive.

  2. Re:Switch? by tomatobasil · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    So the article can be summed up, partly, as "MS is a price gouging monopoly.

    >> * Excludes the mental bills for using their mouse for any period of time.

    All 3 buttons on the mouse on this M$ box are used all the time. I'd really need to use 5 buttons and might find a use for keyboard modifiers with 'em to make 15 or 20 mouse buttons. A single button mac mouse is reason enough to avoid macs in general, at least for now.