On Monday 26 July 2010 14:48:56 Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Mark Wallace wrote: > > We need to remind ourselves that we are the open source people and we > > only deal with proprietary software and politics to the degree that it > > facilitates helping open source people use their systems. > > I just want to touch on this one particular point. > > I love Linux. I use it on 99.9% of my servers (there's always that one > damned application) at work. In that respect, a LUG is an eminently useful > tool both for me to learn from and to give back to in the form of > knowledge learned. > > However, that is *not* to say, however, that I "only deal with proprietary > software... to facilitate helping open source people". I love my Mac Book > Pro, running OS X. It is bad-ass, and frankly, IMHO, is everything Linux > could have been on the desktop if there'd been some sort of overseer > pushing it in the right direction. And you can have my Mac when you pry it > from my cold dead hands. > > Does that make me "not" a Linux guy? I don't think so.
Last week on Wednesday I went to visit NYLUG in New York City for the first time. Of the people that brought laptops to the LUG that day, every single one happened to be running Apple OS X, although not all of them were manufactured by Apple. There's got to be a reasons that people are choosing to run OS X over Linux, although I'm not sure what they are. One reason I was explained about is that on OS X it's easier to update a particular program to the latest version than it is on Linux. I can understand that, but I think there's more to it than this. I would be interested in hearing comments on the subject, which preferably refers to features rather than program names. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Aug 4 - Samba Sep 1 - BOINC Oct 6 - Creating Firefox Extensions
