Comments on: “The end of the Mac road”??? http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/ Life really hates me.... mostly around tea time on a Sunday... Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Casper’s Life » Blog Archive » “Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user” http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/comment-page-1/#comment-6652 Casper’s Life » Blog Archive » “Five crucial things the Linux community doesn’t understand about the average computer user” Wed, 23 May 2007 20:05:02 +0000 http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/#comment-6652 [...] wrote “The end of the Mac road”???, as a response to Ian Betteridge, now it seams that things have happened in “choose your [...] [...] wrote “The end of the Mac road”???, as a response to Ian Betteridge, now it seams that things have happened in “choose your [...]

]]> By: casper http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/comment-page-1/#comment-6502 casper Sun, 20 May 2007 16:20:29 +0000 http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/#comment-6502 These discussions always turn in to an either religions or political debate, where everyone lists what they like about what they use. I would just simply like to see a way where things works across distributions, and sometimes also across diffrent OS'es. These discussions always turn in to an either religions or political debate, where everyone lists what they like about what they use.

I would just simply like to see a way where things works across distributions, and sometimes also across diffrent OS’es.

]]> By: Alphast http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/comment-page-1/#comment-6499 Alphast Sun, 20 May 2007 15:59:26 +0000 http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/#comment-6499 Hi Casper, I am not a quarter of the geek you are, but I know a very little bit my way around Linux. I am not sure if it is still the case nowodays, but I suspect the problem with Suse is that Suse uses a slightly different structure of Linux than Red Hat based distributions. Hence the problem with RPMs. That's why I always used Mandrake. On top of the fact that it is 100% RPM compliant, it has French as "native language"... ;-) And it is really working very well in terms of drivers and new hardware. Now, I have never tried Ubuntu and I don't know what the plus and minus are. Hi Casper,

I am not a quarter of the geek you are, but I know a very little bit my way around Linux. I am not sure if it is still the case nowodays, but I suspect the problem with Suse is that Suse uses a slightly different structure of Linux than Red Hat based distributions. Hence the problem with RPMs. That’s why I always used Mandrake. On top of the fact that it is 100% RPM compliant, it has French as “native language”… ;-) And it is really working very well in terms of drivers and new hardware. Now, I have never tried Ubuntu and I don’t know what the plus and minus are.

]]> By: casper http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/comment-page-1/#comment-6315 casper Thu, 17 May 2007 10:10:54 +0000 http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/#comment-6315 Point taken. But I still have an issue with dependencies, and that there still isn't a common package format between the distributions. Even with Redhat and SuSE which both uses RPM, the packages are still not interchangable, as they use different names for some of the base packages. People have said a lot about buying into Apple (or Microsoft to be a bit extreme), but currently it's almost the same with Linux, choose a Linux distribution and you're more or less stuck with what that distribution offer you - yes you can build your own packages, and/or compile from source, but for the average user that is not an option. I still standby that Linux on servers is the way forward..... Point taken.

But I still have an issue with dependencies, and that there still isn’t a common package format between the distributions. Even with Redhat and SuSE which both uses RPM, the packages are still not interchangable, as they use different names for some of the base packages.

People have said a lot about buying into Apple (or Microsoft to be a bit extreme), but currently it’s almost the same with Linux, choose a Linux distribution and you’re more or less stuck with what that distribution offer you – yes you can build your own packages, and/or compile from source, but for the average user that is not an option.

I still standby that Linux on servers is the way forward…..

]]> By: Ian Betteridge http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/comment-page-1/#comment-6290 Ian Betteridge Wed, 16 May 2007 22:42:13 +0000 http://www.c-note.dk/2007/05/13/the-end-of-the-mac-road/#comment-6290 Actually, I'd say that scores are much more even these days. Installation? Easy with Ubuntu. Of course, you never really have to do installation on a Mac :) Upgrades? The same. Installation of programs? I just use Add/Remove - it has everything I need, pretty much. Connectivity/Sleep/Hibernation? They just work too - much to my surprise. Yes, you have to watch which hardware you buy - but you still have a much wider choice of hardware than you do if you want to run Mac OS X. It's really got to the point where Linux is a viable alternative, and much closer than you think. Actually, I’d say that scores are much more even these days. Installation? Easy with Ubuntu. Of course, you never really have to do installation on a Mac :) Upgrades? The same. Installation of programs? I just use Add/Remove – it has everything I need, pretty much. Connectivity/Sleep/Hibernation? They just work too – much to my surprise.

Yes, you have to watch which hardware you buy – but you still have a much wider choice of hardware than you do if you want to run Mac OS X. It’s really got to the point where Linux is a viable alternative, and much closer than you think.

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