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Linux to Over take Apple on Desktop
Faust:
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Hmmm, yup but Quicktime is the defacto standard for many industries now, film, broadcasting etc. It's also fully standards compliant (MPEG), most "other" standards aren't. I wouldn't say Quicktime is crap.
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Defacto standard? "Why should we have to publish how .doc works? Office is the de facto standard so why don't you just use it?" Jeez, this sounds familiar. It would also be nice if we didn't have to use Quicktime player with it's awful UI and listen to it's constant "please pay for pro version!" whingeing.
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Apple use alot of GNU works. GCC is the default Apple compiler. I use GNU stuff all the time on OS X.
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Yavohl. I was talking to suselinux btw. ;)
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Good for you but I don't think the 1000's of developers worldwide, for example ASF developers, that choose to use OS X as their OS of choice would be happy with that statement.
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I wasn't the one that said that apple was for average fools.
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Speaking of which how do you think I would go if I wanted to use a different WM on a Mac? Or set it up as a firewall / router? Mac OSX has far more of a problem with configurability than Linux
Utter rubbish!
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Alright then lets see you build a beowulf cluster from Macs. Or put the Mac OS on a PDA...
raptor:
calyptos will hopefully solve all these problems that current users of windows have on switching to the "penguin".
it will be substantially easier to use and will be equipped with an alotment of eye candy! :-D
*calyptos.com will be done soon, which will include progress of the OS, features and release dates.
*be prepared we will need beta testers!
suselinux:
One step closer
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Disney funded a GPL project to add full PHOTOSHOP support to WINE
Because it's GPL it was snatched up and put into Crossover office, but is still available for regular old wine.
I say one step closer because so many have said that if PHOTOSHOP support switched from MAC to LINUX, Apple would die.
frankly, I can't see PHOTOSHOP ever leaving Apple,
they complement each other too well, they always have.
BUT all of this does make LINUX all the more desirable for the desktop.
raptor:
*also on the maturity of linux issue.
it must be mature if their are 5 people at major book giant barnes&noble, reading up on linux instead of the 0 windows readers.
raptor:
quote: I say one step closer because so many have said that if PHOTOSHOP support switched from MAC to LINUX, Apple would die.
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NO. apple isnt going to plunge for quite sometime. i have said this before but apple computers are very powerful graphically. *Linux may have good graphical support but apple will still dominate the graphical market for awhile.
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