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Apple and Linux Beneficial to Each Other?

Posted by pudge on from the cats-and-dogs-living-together dept.

viewstyle writes "There is an interesting commentary on eWEEK discussing the 'synergies' between Apple and Linux after visiting LinuxWorld. It makes a good point that advancement of Linux is good for Mac OS X and vice versa, because of the ease of porting across the platforms (soon to get easier with the X11 on Mac OS X)." Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs ...

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  1. X11... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    pronounced "10-11" by Steve Jobs!

    1. Re:X11... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Porting X11 to OSX is like fixing a flat tire by deflating the other 3.

      Mod me down, but you know it's true.

  2. Apple by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Penguins like apples. They grow quite well in Antarctica.

  3. The Onion predicted this one!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gaywads, Dorkwads Sign Historic Wad Accord

  4. Linux/Apple combo trouble for marriages by bluesangria · · Score: 5, Funny
    The proof is self-evident.


    I brought home my Ti OS X PowerBook from work one day. My Solaris/Linux loving spouse immediately downloaded OroborX (sp?), turned on the wireless networking, fired up iTunes and accessed remote Xterm apps for his job. I have asked him to stop greeting me at the door with "Hi Honey! Did you bring your PowerBook?", as it makes me feel he loves me only for my laptop.


    Negotiations are currently underway for his own PowerBook, so that I might eventually recover mine.

    bluesangria

    1. Re:Linux/Apple combo trouble for marriages by larien · · Score: 2, Funny
      I can just see the conversation:

      Tell me, do you like me just for my laptop?
      No honey, of course not, I love you for the sex as well!
      That's OK then...

  5. Re:Works for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You use MySQL. Your opinion is not important to us. You surely also use slackware and liked that greek marriage movie.

  6. Re:we'd be good to go.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah, I can see this is well thought out. To expand:

    Business Plan of Aqua on Linux for Apple:

    1) The stability of linux
    2) The price-point of linux
    3) ...
    4) Profit!

  7. Re:But they are! by stor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Using Macs? It's official then! The ./ editors are gay!

    Hey hey settle I'm just kidding eeeiiiii?

    Cheers
    Stor

    --
    "Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
  8. Heh-heh-heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's the sound of LONGtime Macintosh fan gloating ... in a nice way. :)

  9. Let's hope so... by Patik · · Score: 4, Funny
    Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs ...
    This could be a good thing -- I hear OSX comes with a spell-checker...
  10. -1 Oblivious to Irony by thefinite · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah right. Next you'll be telling me that they use Linux!

    (Sorry, a bit harsh of me, I suppose. I guess I thought everyone knew that everyone knew about the editors and their Macs.)

    --
    Boom Shanka
  11. It's not that difficult to see why ... by vlad_petric · · Score: 2, Funny
    They're hardly in any competition for marketshare. Apple competes with Windoze and so does Linux, but from 2 opposite extremes. It's very much like Jerry and the dog allying against Tom :)

    Of course, that might change in the future

    --

    The Raven

  12. Where is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Where is the comment "Real man use Linux" !!!????
    What is happening to Slashdot!!!

  13. right, cause everyone on ./ uses linux..... by sweeze · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next thing you know, most of the Slashdot editors and programmers will be using Macs ...

    you mean as opposed to windows, right? :-P

  14. Re:Uh, soon to get easier? by pudge · · Score: 2, Funny

    The correctness of it is not a matter for opionion or debate.

    Ha ha. Never heard of language being the one true democracy?

    Not when it comes to proper nouns, of course not. That's nonsense.