linus is afraid of losing his importance. With OS X shipping on millions of Macs by June - with awesome development tools included - AND an open source OS foundation, Linus is just lashing out at anything that makes him less important (and less famous and less valuable).
John
it's not that it was technically impossible for apple to get the preemptive multitasking,etc. but before steve jobs they aloways got plagued by feature-creep and poor corporate leadership... they tried for a new os all through the 90's... Jobs gets there in '98 and 30 months later Mac OS X is here.
you say Macs costs twice as much as they should?
are you on crack? Apple designs the motherboard, the case, the speakers, and many of the internal components of a Mac. Apple does the marketing, releases free apps, runs open source server and kernel projects. besides that, Apple hardware is sincerely made to the highest standards and unlike other computer makers, Apple has across the line built-in wireless networking ability, built in FireWire, ethernet, DVD or CD burners, computers designed to work without fans (a big engineering feat that shows they will do anything to make computer hardware that is human-friendly - computer fans on the few non-Mac boxes I run are annoyingly loud).
I think Macs are underpriced.
John
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well Linux is free... do you see DVD authoring, FireWire video editing software, and Adobe PhotoSlop on it? So I guess the problem has nothing to do with Apple charging for software.
that guy who listed the steps about installing a new hard drive on a linux machine was nuts. he was all "all you do is run fdisk, and then lp1 and blah blah blah"... trying to say it's so simple why make big deal out of apple's simplicity. well he is on crack. i am a programmer for god's sake and i have tried to become a linux user three times now... it's HARD. you can feel smugly superior because i feel that way, or you can realize your precious platform is going to remain a tiny niche that OS X is going to kill. i am a mac user and i have a huge interest in the *nix world. i write perl scripts and i would like to learn how to operate unix from the command line, and compile stuff, and use open source software. with Mac OS X I can finally get my foot in the door.
and for the other guy who said he doesn't understand what dave reynolds was saying about using the full power of unix on os x. reynolds isn't necessarily talking about using command line, he means great multitasking, memory protection, speed, symmetric multiprocessing, and under the hood stuff - PLUS the ability to get at the command line.
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linus is afraid of losing his importance. With OS X shipping on millions of Macs by June - with awesome development tools included - AND an open source OS foundation, Linus is just lashing out at anything that makes him less important (and less famous and less valuable). John
You probably shouldn't buy a Mac if all you care about is the price of one. That's not at all what a Mac is about.
are you on crack? of course it supports DHCP! i'm using it right now. oh man.
it's not that it was technically impossible for apple to get the preemptive multitasking,etc. but before steve jobs they aloways got plagued by feature-creep and poor corporate leadership... they tried for a new os all through the 90's... Jobs gets there in '98 and 30 months later Mac OS X is here.
good point!
you say Macs costs twice as much as they should? are you on crack? Apple designs the motherboard, the case, the speakers, and many of the internal components of a Mac. Apple does the marketing, releases free apps, runs open source server and kernel projects. besides that, Apple hardware is sincerely made to the highest standards and unlike other computer makers, Apple has across the line built-in wireless networking ability, built in FireWire, ethernet, DVD or CD burners, computers designed to work without fans (a big engineering feat that shows they will do anything to make computer hardware that is human-friendly - computer fans on the few non-Mac boxes I run are annoyingly loud). I think Macs are underpriced. John
well Linux is free... do you see DVD authoring, FireWire video editing software, and Adobe PhotoSlop on it? So I guess the problem has nothing to do with Apple charging for software.
dude chill out, the machines dual boot to OS 9 or OS X. if DVD burning is your scene, use OS 9 for a few more weeks. chill the hell out! john
that guy who listed the steps about installing a new hard drive on a linux machine was nuts. he was all "all you do is run fdisk, and then lp1 and blah blah blah"... trying to say it's so simple why make big deal out of apple's simplicity. well he is on crack. i am a programmer for god's sake and i have tried to become a linux user three times now... it's HARD. you can feel smugly superior because i feel that way, or you can realize your precious platform is going to remain a tiny niche that OS X is going to kill. i am a mac user and i have a huge interest in the *nix world. i write perl scripts and i would like to learn how to operate unix from the command line, and compile stuff, and use open source software. with Mac OS X I can finally get my foot in the door.
and for the other guy who said he doesn't understand what dave reynolds was saying about using the full power of unix on os x. reynolds isn't necessarily talking about using command line, he means great multitasking, memory protection, speed, symmetric multiprocessing, and under the hood stuff - PLUS the ability to get at the command line.
just my two cents.
john