Apple Goes Intel...

[Stan Barr]

Hi, 

Patrick Finnegan said:
> 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 disagree too...I run Yellow Dog Linux on a dual 180MHz PPC 7300.
(It was originally a 200MHz machine, but the previous owner liked
swapping bits around!)

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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

The future was never like this!