Apple Goes Intel...

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:01, Teo Zenios wrote:
> Today the only thing going for Apple is OSX (tightly written to the
> hardware), and that is not going to change. People who don't like
> piecing their machines together and going through driver hell will 
> stick to the Mac no matter what was under the hood. Lately a Mac is
> for people who hate Microsoft and don't like messing with Linux
> installs. 

I disagree:

finnegpt at excalibur:~$ uname -snrmo ; grep machine /proc/cpuinfo
Linux excalibur 2.6.11.7 ppc64 GNU/Linux
machine         : PowerMac7,3

I'm not necessarily a "typical" apple customer, but definitely not the 
only one that likes to run Linux on their hardware.  If you don't 
believe me, look here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/

Oh, and there's some "Linus Torvalds" guy that is said to have a G5 as 
his main workstation; I'm pretty sure it doesn't run MacOS.

IMO MacOS is ok (though I have taken to being an Free/OSS software 
snob), but the only reason I buy Apple is for their hardware. Linux + 
Power(PC) == goodness.

Also, I know plenty of people that either use both Linux and MacOS.

Pat
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