oooh crap. i just thought of something. does mac have the drivers necessary to support a regular pc like he's got? is he talking about just placing mac on his desktop with an install disc or buying a mac? because i've never seen mac OS on any hardware other than mac's. even if he switches, he still won't get his hardware working... and he'll just pay a whole bunch.
and hey... can you actually buy a mac osX install disc like you can Xp or vista? i really want to help solve his problem... On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Kenneth Miller <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
