Re: Re(8): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor

Re(8): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-13 Thread Brian Durant
GNU/Linux hasn't gained the critical mass required to meet this challenge as well as MS. Most components work, though. Most modern video cards are supported, for example. Isn't this the same for any OS? MS rely on hardware manufacturers writing drivers for Windows. True, they don't have to lobby