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Load Linux on the Mac mini
An anonymous reader writes "The Mac mini is an ideal low-cost, high-performance PowerPC development platform for numerous applications. Learn how to install and configure Linux on the mini. Future articles will add the software required to make it into a stand-alone multimedia appliance."
This is Slashdot; I know better than to ask why someone's installing KitchingApplianceLinux 0.3 on his toaster, or trying to get his car to boot off a Knoppix disc, but this, to me, seems asinine.
Paying the absurd premium for Apple hardware just to rip the already-beautiful OS off of it and install *nix?
It's like buying a souped-up $50,000 Cadillac and replacing the engine with something out of a Honda. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Hondas, but if that's the performance you want, why on earth would you spend the money on the Cadillac?
Linux on a Mac when it already has OS X?
That's like putting a ricer engine in a new Corvette!
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
Wahhhhh....Apple sold me a very inexpensive machine and they won't sell me the OS for the same percentage that other get it for.
Wahhhhh....for instance, Wahhhhh....someone that bought a wahhhhh dual G5 2.7 only has to waaaaaahhhhhh pay 4% of the system price....waaaaahhhhhh.
Dude, are you really that stupid? Did you not know that Apple had been saying for a year that they were going to release a new OS? Did you not know every major update to the OS is $100 or more? Seriously? Do you think Apple sold you that cheap computer so that you could get off easier than everyone else?
I'm sorry, but your logic is way off and ya sound like an idiot.
Oh yeah....waaaaahhhhhhhh.....you can keep using your fucking 25% quote as much as you want, but if Apple gave you the machine for free with $20 shipping, would we now hear you bitching that the OS now costs you 650% more than the machine? Dude, your a fucking idiot.
Waaaaaahhhhhh the AC