Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 3860
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:03:51 -0600, Oxford
Is it? I see it as great news! Best case...For *years* the Mac-oids have screamed about the inferiority of Intel processors and the superiority of the PPC. How clock speed meant nothing. Now, Apple will be dumping their beloved hardware for what they percieve as garbage! But there is *hope* for these poor, lost souls....Linux. They can take their PPC platforms, and run Linux on them instead....and even keep buying and upgrading to *new* PPC hardware from other venders with Linux as the OS, something they could never do with OSX! Worst case.....hey, a bunch of Maccies move to new hardware, and the old hardware can't be "upgraded" to the new OS and apps....so out it goes, to ebay for a song! Linux users can pick up that high quality "junk" PPC hardware at low, low market glut prices. Really, it's a win-win for Linux.
it has nothing to do with QuickTime, it's all about the strenght of your connection available bandwidth coming out of the jammed servers. new software? why do you need new software? haven't you watched...
Oh wait, it's win-win-win....because any way you look at it, if Macs *do* come down in price and go up in performance because of this....hey, more cheap hardware to run Linux on.
no, it's not an emulator. "Rosetta is a translation process that runs a PowerPC binary on an Macintosh...
Actually, we run on Intel-AMD, MIPS, PPC (and not just Apple's platform either...), Alphas, the new Cells, and a number of other processors. Linux's saving grace is that it's adaptable and can be tossed on pretty much anything, plus it's Free, and tends to have and come with a large library of software.
No thanks.
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