| gabriel rosenkoetter on Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:58:05 -0500 |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:01:53PM -0500, christophe barbe wrote: > Put a wireless card NOT airport in an apple laptop under OS-X and you > would have different results. GNU/Linux and others Free OS supports a > lot more of hardware than what Apple has to support. If you're going to run around using GNU/Linux rather than just Linux, you could at least do Apple, who took the time to copyright their operating system's name, the courtesy of spelling it right, Christophe. :^> As to supporting third-party wireless cards, Christophe couldn't be more right. You can't even stick a PC card wireless ethernet adapter using EXACTLY the same chipset as Apple ships in a Mac and expect it to work. It might, but it probably won't. > > >I have more experience with Mac OS-X server than with Mac OS-X and I can > > (No -'s here). > I didn't get that? He's chiding you for the same spelling mistake that I am. > Again, I don't say that Mac OS-X is not good. It's a lot better than > Windows. It's better than Linux for some apps (emphasis on some). What I > don't understand is the visible switch from linux to OS-X. Hopefully I > believe that these 'switch's were mostly driven by a novelty effect and > what I see seems to indicate the same (I see more and more TiBook and > iBook linux users these days). The "switch" that you're seeing, and this is pure speculation, is a group that switched from MS Windows to GNU/Linux because MS Windows had become unbearably difficult to deal with, unbearably expensive, unbearably insulting to the intelligence of the user (yes, I really mean that), or otherwise ubearable. Those folks weren't using GNU/Linux because it supported their freedoms, they were using it because they needed a computer that worked more often than it didn't. For them, a shiny new Mac running Mac OS X works more often than ia32 hardware running a community-supported OS. As I said, just speculation. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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