Sabi ni Zak noong Fri, Mar 3, 2006 at 4:17 PM: > Good question. One good answer: because Linux has better hardware > than most BSD-ish systems, Mac OS X included. Not to mention the fact
However, IMHO this doesn't hold for OS X since the manufacturer also produces much of the hardware. For the stuff that's already in the box -- video, sound, and other I/O circuitry -- Apple isn't so stupid as to fail to write driver support. OTOH, if you're talking about peripherals, e.g, scanners or USB TV boxes, you could be right. Most printers I've seen on the market though do have OS X support. > that many Linux distros are FOSS, while Mac OS X isn't. But then Hmm, aren't *all* (GNU/)Linux distros FOSS? They have to be, don't they, because the Linux kernel is under the GPL. Mac OS X? The kernel, Mach microkernel 3.0 if I'm not mistaken, and the BSD utilities are of course FOSS. Aqua (or whatever they call the interface) isn't. As an aside, I went to HMR earlier and found Bayanihan running on the PCs there. There was also one PC running Linspire which despite its PhP2.5K (approximate) *is* FOSS. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
