Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:21:59 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 shevek@bur.st wrote: > >> As far as I'm concerned, commercial trolls have successfully taken away >> linux's only ever chance to sweep the field. >> >> It is now gone. OSX rocks harder than linux, the spotlight function is >> superb. >> > [SNIPPED....] > > Sorry to feed the trolls, but I couldn't resist. Isn't OSX just > a commercial re-hash of BSD that Jobs "appropriated"? The performance > has been so poor with the PPC platform that Apple has been forced > to sign a pack with the devil and use ix86 in their future boxes.
s/pack/pact/
It's not at all clear that Apple had a choice, please read comp.sys.intel for a long discussion I won't repeat. > > I'm not making this up! It would have been nice to have a competing > platform remaining to keep everybody honest. Now that Apple is > going Intel, we will be forced to use whatever the Indians provide.
Or download OSX and run it elsewhere, or... -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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