On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:48 AM, ./aal wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:29 AM, KP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> All the talk about Windows' on Mac, has brought me to this question. >>> Can a person run Linux on an Intel Mac? >>>> >>> >> >> You can run Linux on anything. >> >> > Which will still leave you running software that was DESIGNED to > operate most efficiently on the 80386 and 'children of' chip from INTEL. > > Linux was intended as a 'UNIX' 'Look Alike' --- how well that was > accomplished, is open to discussion (but not by me). > > BSD, is also a 'UNIX' 'Look Alike' [to the extent that it has passed > most of, if not all of the validations to be called UNIX] > > BSD is the foundation of Apple OSX > > Now, to run Linux, just to say it can be done, I understand. But > Linux vs. OSX -- I don't even see a glimmer of an advantage. > > JMHO > > Chuck Davis > this was not about what is better it's about what is possible
NO OS is best each has it's own advantages and solves different problems "look alike" is a very bad term POSIX compliant is the specification and it refers to function, not appearance Just because Linux was developed originally using x86 hardware does not mean it is limited by that the mouse was developed to control a Xerox machine. I dont think that limits it the wheel was developed using archaic tools and materials. That wont keep me from having them on my car and to clarify "Linux" refers only to the kernel, the rest of the OS is GNU. BSD uses a different kernel, but the rest is still GNU, Just like OSX Again, I am not proselytizing. I am simply trying to balance the info. Please do more research b4 forming your humble opinion Use the tool that is right for the job, not the tool that has the right ad campaign. Nothing is an ideal swiss army knife IMHO -- I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
