Linux creator Torvalds switches to an Apple Mac 168 plus 16
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:26:48 -0800, windowsmvp
You misspelled "replace" and "fantastic"; you got them as "downgrade" and "crapysic".
I have 3 here. One crashes constantly. That's been tracked to hardware. One crashed sometimes (see below), especially switching between the linux box and it via KVM more than a...
This *is* Torvalds we're talking about here; if anyone would be running Linux, we'd expect it to be him, wot? And it just goes to show that Linux does something that neither Windows nor OSX does - it ports. You can run it on the x86, the PPC, or any of a hundred other systems. You can take your favorite apps with you when you switch hardware, you don't have to toss 'em because they - and the OS they run on - isn't available.
This is, IMO, a major reason why Linux is coming on so strong; unlike many previous OSen, you can use the same OS, the same apps, whether you're using a Mac or a PC or a workstation.
Because it isn't a downgrade.
On Thursday 10 March 2005 16:50 Reynolds Birthday 50,000 BTU would raise the temperature of 50,000lb of water by 1 degree F. That's...
I care enough to use it daily. You obviously care, or you wouldn't spend so much effort complaining about it. I don't care what, if anything, Sun is doing with their hardware, so you don't see me constantly unpleasant womaning about it; to do so would suggest I do, in fact, care. Yet here you are, whining on about Linux, demonstrating that you do in fact care very much.
snips On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:19:01 -0800, windowsmvp Except for the millions already using it and more every day, you mean? Oh, right, let's pretend they don't...
If you don't like it, don't use it. Nobody's forcing you. If you aren't using it, then it simply doesn't matter to you how good or bad it is, since you aren't using it.
No, OSX isn't Linux. OSX is vaguely BSD-like, at least under the hood. And here's a wakeup call for you: Linux is a modern and complete OS. Enough so that it is Linux, not OSX, not Windows, not BeOS or OS-2, that keeps getting chosen for everything from research to the world's fastest computers.