That was one of the best articles on the Mac or Linux that I've read recently. I am disappointed, however, that the author failed to mention the availability of Linux for the PowerPc platform (even in the links section.) I've been a Mac user for slightly over ten years, but I've also been using Linux on my Powermac for about 3 years. I'm really excited about the future of the Linux OS and GNU software, but more and more feel like an outsider it was once a friendly and open community. Simply because I don't like Intel hardware. One of the greatest strengths for Linux is that it runs on so many different types of processors, with the same behavior. And with the POSIX and other movements most software runs the same across them all. I just compiled the latest version of Windowmaker the other day right out of the tarball. So easy a chimp could do it.:) As more and more "commercial" interest have begun developing shrink-wrapped software the ability of those of us who chose to use non-Intel processors are getting left out in the cold. Although often overlooked, this is in fact one of the main strengths of Open Source: if the code is open users can adapt the software for other platforms without your company having to spend the extra development costs. Oh well, I am happy that so many of the rest of you in the Linux community will get to play the next Civilization or Quake. Just wish I couls join in all the excitement.
(This reply was written just after I've renetworked the SPARC network I administer for Soalris 2.6. Let's hope it sends!:P)
So, a Linux version means it'll run under Linux, right? So say if I bought the cd, stuck in the cd on my PPC or my Alpha box in the lab I could simply run the program and frag Linux users the world over, right? Right? Heh. Somehow I doubt it... The first noticeable downside to the whole "commercial acceptance" of Linux is that all of these apps are only being developed for Intel architecture. And since it's allready been shown that you can't buy a PC without paying for Windows I don't exactly see ol' Billy Gates quacking in his bunker over all of this.
Chuck D's response to the various complaints posted to their board about the new single only being playable under Windows:
"i got macs and cant get mp4, but were working on it...did you know that 96% of this board is pc?..that's the reasons for some of the moves..."
So the crew aknowledges it wasn't the greatest plan to release it as an.EXE file. I haven't read the MPEG group's spec yet, but from most of the comments I read it sounded like the OS-specific nature was inherent in the format. I hope this is not the case. Actual OPEN standards are a GOOD THING...
Slashdot Mirror
That was one of the best articles on the Mac or Linux that I've read recently. I am disappointed, however, that the author failed to mention the availability of Linux for the PowerPc platform (even in the links section.) :)
:P)
I've been a Mac user for slightly over ten years, but I've also been using Linux on my Powermac for about 3 years. I'm really excited about the future of the Linux OS and GNU software, but more and more feel like an outsider it was once a friendly and open community. Simply because I don't like Intel hardware. One of the greatest strengths for Linux is that it runs on so many different types of processors, with the same behavior. And with the POSIX and other movements most software runs the same across them all. I just compiled the latest version of Windowmaker the other day right out of the tarball. So easy a chimp could do it.
As more and more "commercial" interest have begun developing shrink-wrapped software the ability of those of us who chose to use non-Intel processors are getting left out in the cold. Although often overlooked, this is in fact one of the main strengths of Open Source: if the code is open users can adapt the software for other platforms without your company having to spend the extra development costs.
Oh well, I am happy that so many of the rest of you in the Linux community will get to play the next Civilization or Quake. Just wish I couls join in all the excitement.
(This reply was written just after I've renetworked the SPARC network I administer for Soalris 2.6. Let's hope it sends!
Witchblade
So, a Linux version means it'll run under Linux, right? So say if I bought the cd, stuck in the cd on my PPC or my Alpha box in the lab I could simply run the program and frag Linux users the world over, right? Right?
Heh. Somehow I doubt it...
The first noticeable downside to the whole "commercial acceptance" of Linux is that all of these apps are only being developed for Intel architecture. And since it's allready been shown that you can't buy a PC without paying for Windows I don't exactly see ol' Billy Gates quacking in his bunker over all of this.
Until VA Research ships a G4...
Chuck D's response to the various complaints posted to their board about the new single only being playable under Windows:
..that's the reasons for some of the moves..."
.EXE file. I haven't read the MPEG group's spec yet, but from most of the comments I read it sounded like the OS-specific nature was inherent in the format. I hope this is not the case. Actual OPEN standards are a GOOD THING...
"i got macs and cant get mp4, but were working on it...did you know that 96% of this board is pc?
So the crew aknowledges it wasn't the greatest plan to release it as an