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Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the at-least-it-wasn't-an-april-fools-joke dept.

Slippy Douglas writes "Apparently, Apple has made good on one of the 30th anniversary product rumours. Apple today announced the Boot Camp Public Beta, which allows Intel Macs to easily and legally multi-boot. Boot Camp will be a standard feature in Mac OS X 10.5."

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  1. Apple is currently in denial by penguin-collective · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I doubt we're going to see Linux support form Apple any time soon--they are currently in the denial phase; all big companies seem to go through it when Linux threatens their business. IBM was one of the first companies to get out of it, and it's taken them a few years, but they now have reasonable support for Linux. Sun has gotten out of the denial phase, but they're still hoping they can pull a fast one on Linux. Microsoft is barely out of denial and is making the first signs of accepting Linux as a commercial reality. Apple is still at that stage where they think they can fight Linux with what they think is a "better" product.

  2. Re:Nope. by krakelohm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sigh... I am a Mac head, own two & love them. I have tried different version of Linux and in my eyes its just not there. BUT just like with any operating system there are benifits for many people over the Mac. This question has been beaten to death here and other places, do a search and you will find your answers.

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  3. Re:Nope. by byolinux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because you might want to run a completely free, or more free OS? That's why I run (just) Ubuntu on my Machine.

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