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Linux to Over take Apple on Desktop
Faust:
quote:
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.
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Yah, it shows Linux users can read and Windows users can't. ;)
Laukev7:
quote: Alright then lets see you build a beowulf cluster from Macs.
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Er, this is actually MUCH easier to do on Macs than on Linux. I even saw read about a story about a grade 6 student (or something) clustering G4 PowerMacs (with instructions, of course). It explained how universities preferred Macs because they were quicker to cluster and get the work done. Unfortunately, I can't find the article. :(
Oh well, here's something else:
http://www.apple.com/scitech/research/hiperformance/cluster/
jasonlane:
quote: 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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Now that's just a matter of personal taste, yes I wish they'd stop the whingeing as well.
quote: Alright then lets see you build a beowulf cluster from Macs. Or put the Mac OS on a PDA...
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OS X Beowulf clusters are happening already:
Beowulf
I believe that Panther will improve greatly on this point though.
However I agree that some *nixes have more maturity in this field. Universities and research establishments have been making use of them in this way for a long time after all. I think the problem that alot of people have with OS X is that they see still as a Graphic Designers OS, which it ain't just reserved for this no more..... OS X on a PDA, I'd like to see.
M51DPS:
quote:Originally posted by suselinux:
One step closer
web page
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.
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It doesn't matter, disney is evil and never would have given a shit if they didn't need Photoshop for editing.
suselinux:
quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
It doesn't matter, disney is evil and never would have given a shit if they didn't need Photoshop for editing.
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You were beat up by a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit as a kid, weren't you?
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