This discussion wasn't that technical before he jumped in about what * exactly* is used by mac between mac and linux or whatever, any of that other stuff. it was just about that guy getting his stuff to work with linux. i don't even think that his problem has even been solved, but if misinformation was the point then he could have clarified the subject without talking about his reason for buying a mac. i've already admitted it would be nice to have a mac. But hey, i'm not just jabbering my head off about stuff that i don't know abosolutely anything about. I'm an amateur entirely-I haven't had a single class with computers at ALL ever, besides how to type and yet here i am working my way through a lot of problems (been using for three years now). i had some legitimate suggestions for the guy and some good reasons to simply stick with the system some more before simply giving up. I want to see the use of linux spread. sometimes things do work out. if they don't, go mac. that's fine. but more than anything i know that a lot of people try linux and don't like it because of the learning curve. There's lots of things to like about the system.
I never meant entirely that Mac was a linux distro. i know for sure that macintosh is an operating system all it's own, and i'll explain my reasoning behind my statement by telling you where i got the information that i did about mac being related to linux/unix whatever specifically. i just recently contacted the professor that will be teaching me while i'm at school. during a lengthened conversation about multiple operating systems and what has been going on with each. when the conversation shifted to macintosh, i was informed that there was some relationship between the two operating systems, that one had something in common with the other. i don't know specifically because the professor referred to something technical that i can't remember, but that it was tied to the security of both mac and linux. anyway, it has been established that there is some interrelationship between the operating systems. i understand that some of my statements were inaccurate, but i wasn't trying to give him a technical breakdown of linux. also, i've said that i don't have a formal education, and i couldn't give him that even if i wanted to. after re-reading it the things he made points about, the first of which i have already explained, maybe it seemed to him that i was taking support away from mac by saying that linux was the reason behind mac's security and that i was supporting exclusively linux to get him to stay. well of course, favoring of any operating system is biased, and we really can't have that of course. there are advantages to each of them-and that should be recognized. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Fletcher Bonds <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't read Chris's mail as being "set off". It seemed like to me a > logical and reasonable response to inaccurate and over-simplified statements > made on the thread. It was informative and to the point. > > When un-tested guesses and assumptions are injected in to a technical > discussion thread* as if they were facts* (i.e. - Implying Mac OS X is a > Linux distro repackaged for instance), it should expected that the thread > will "get schooled". Notice I said the thread, not you. It's not > personal. Misinformation is not being allowed to propogate. That's all. > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Kenneth Miller < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> hey whoa man. i didn't mean to set you off. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
