On Sep 23, 2008, at 12:16 PM, ./aal wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Charles Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:48 AM, ./aal wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:29 AM, KP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> All the talk about Windows' on Mac, has brought me to this >>>> question. >>>> Can a person run Linux on an Intel Mac? >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> You can run Linux on anything. >>> >>> >> Which will still leave you running software that was DESIGNED to >> operate most efficiently on the 80386 and 'children of' chip from >> INTEL. >> >> Linux was intended as a 'UNIX' 'Look Alike' --- how well that was >> accomplished, is open to discussion (but not by me). >> >> BSD, is also a 'UNIX' 'Look Alike' [to the extent that it has passed >> most of, if not all of the validations to be called UNIX] >> >> BSD is the foundation of Apple OSX >> >> Now, to run Linux, just to say it can be done, I understand. But >> Linux vs. OSX -- I don't even see a glimmer of an advantage. >> >> JMHO >> >> Chuck Davis >> > this was not about what is better better ----One of what I refer to as 'weasel' words -- I.E. words whose meaning is NOT fixed, meaning any of many possible things depending on user/ context. > it's about what is possible > > NO OS is best > each has it's own advantages and solves different problems > We agree here! > "look alike" is a very bad term > POSIX compliant is the specification and it refers to function, not > appearance > > Just because Linux was developed originally using x86 hardware does > not mean it is limited by that > Just that was Linus's intent [See Wikipedia info from LT, Re:LINUX] > the mouse was developed to control a Xerox machine. I dont think > that limits it > Nope, and would laugh at attempts to do so! > the wheel was developed using archaic tools and materials. That wont > keep me from having them on my car > > and to clarify "Linux" refers only to the kernel, the rest of the OS > is GNU. GNU only relates to the 'licensing' for profit of derivations. Not anything to do with how or why things work the way they do. > BSD uses a different kernel, but the rest is still GNU, You say that as if GNU was a 'thing' --- it's NOT it isn't any of the programming, ideas, or anything that makes things function. > Just > like OSX The 'Implication' being that you could swap the 'GNU' portions, and still have operable systems. [Don't work that way.] > > Again, I am not proselytizing. I am simply trying to balance the info. > Please do more research b4 forming your humble opinion > > > Use the tool that is right for the job, not the tool that has the > right ad campaign. Right on!!! ---- Linux being the one with the 'Vast Horde of Faithful Users'. > Nothing is an ideal swiss army knife Agree! I was trying to make visible the fact that to run LINUX on a system that was already running OSX, was in many ways ludicrous. Because most people seem to have forgotten just WHAT LINUX was created for. [A UNIX like OS to run on the IBM PC & clones.] And what OSX really is. [A UNIX like OS (originally for the PPC chips, but recently also ported to the x86 family of INTEL chips.] Chuck D. > > > IMHO > > -- > I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to > promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want > peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of > the way and let them have it. > -- Dwight D. Eisenhower > > "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed > us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their > use." --Galileo Galilei --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
