Am being a pest here, but my own favorite laptop series / company has
been the IBM /Lenovo Thinkpads - T and X series (dream about the later
only)
So Hardeep, what are the "hard" facts that you dislike in a mac - not
the moral / philosophy.
On 6/23/08, Hardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> if apple sells a laptop pre-installed with lin, or dual-boots with lin
> and mac, i'd suppose hordes of people, new people, and those normally
> averse to apple, would go out and enthusiastically buy those machines.
The only question is why would they do that? Steve Jobs is a marketing
expert,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Ramnarayan. K wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Linux Lingam wrote:
>>
>> i know of a few who triple-boot: mac, win, lin.
>>
>>
> am sure triplebooting mac, win and Linux would be possible on a linux
> machine as well, *if* mac released their os indepen
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i know of a few who triple-boot: mac, win, lin.
>
>
> am sure triplebooting mac, win and Linux would be possible on a linux
machine as well, *if* mac released their os independent of the platform.
Agreeing with all the bene
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Lut4rp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm sorry I missed the first part of this conversation, but has anyone
>> actually managed to dual-boot a MAC with Ubuntu ?
>
> Yes, my friend dual-boots his Macbook Pro with Ubuntu Hardy and OS
> X Leopard. He claims to have fa
> I'm sorry I missed the first part of this conversation, but has anyone
> actually managed to dual-boot a MAC with Ubuntu ?
Yes, my friend dual-boots his Macbook Pro with Ubuntu Hardy and OS
X Leopard. He claims to have faced no problems whatsoever.
Cheers
Pratul
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Onkar Shinde wrote:
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>
>> 2) all praise for ubuntu is praise for apple and mac in disguise. mark
>> shuttleworth is 100% inspired by the design and aesthetics and
>> UI-approach of apple. he makes no bones about this.
>>
>
>
> Did he say that? How about some link to some article or inter
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 2) all praise for ubuntu is praise for apple and mac in disguise. mark
> > shuttleworth is 100% inspired by the design and aesthetics and
> > UI-approach of apple. he makes no bones about this.
>
>
> Did he say t
> 2) all praise for ubuntu is praise for apple and mac in disguise. mark
> shuttleworth is 100% inspired by the design and aesthetics and
> UI-approach of apple. he makes no bones about this.
Did he say that? How about some link to some article or interview?
By the way, Ubuntu's uses GNOME as de
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> [snip]
>
> some quick, sobering thoughts:
>
> 1) if you like or prefer windows, remember, the macbook is the onl
[snip]
some quick, sobering thoughts:
1) if you like or prefer windows, remember, the macbook is the only
laptop (so far) on which you can run mac, win, gnulinux, concurrently.
so those choosing mac over win or vice-versa, can choose both.
2) all praise for ubuntu is praise for apple and mac in
> You are so wrong! The Mac has a very lively and helpful community
> around it, even though its closed and paid.
My God, these guys are making money even from 'lively and helpful
communities', I prefer calling it 'paid support'. Like I said, Huge
Overpriced Advertisement to earn more money fo
> Why aren't there any decent third party apps for Mac, macboys use an excuse
> that it has everything inbuilt and the same people would curse windows
> inbuilt IE
> and WMP as half baked.
You are so wrong! The Mac has a very lively and helpful community
around it, even though its closed and
Mac is a bigger devil than windows, its one big overpriced steve jobs
merchandise advertisement that does only what it wants to and what makes more
money for
Steve Jobs (read itunes).
Why aren't there any decent third party apps for Mac, macboys use an excuse
that it has everything inbuilt an
Hi
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what do you think suddenly inspired the massive improvements in the
> user-interface of gnu/linux?!
> hehehe just joking
>
So what are the great differences between MacOs X and say the best GUI
linux distro - i assu
[snip]
>
> I would like some clarification on what Mr. Slytherin :) has
> written. Macs are favorites among FOSS developers, but do they use the
> machine with Linux or with OS X? I have no idea, but you might?
some use only gnulinux and/or bsd, but almost all keep their mac osx
running in anoth
> Also apple machines always come packed with latest technologies. For
> ex. they started shipping graphics cards with DVI output interface
> long time before other vendors.
> Macbook seems to be favorite among FOSS developers. Check photos from
> UDS on planet Ubuntu you will know what I mean.
> A
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am interested in user experiences of Ubuntu (and other Linux OS) on
> Apple Macs-particularly MAC books - both the positives and negatives.
>
> also interested in why one should / should not buy a a macbook and run
>
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am interested in user experiences of Ubuntu (and other Linux OS) on
> Apple Macs-particularly MAC books - both the positives and negatives.
I don't understand how user experience is going to be different on
thse mac
Hi
Am interested in user experiences of Ubuntu (and other Linux OS) on
Apple Macs-particularly MAC books - both the positives and negatives.
also interested in why one should / should not buy a a macbook and run
gnu/linux on it,
ram
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