On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:13:33PM +0800, Dudley F. Ca�as wrote: > But i just wonder what could linux-ppc can do (benefits) for the mac users > unlike micro$oft$ li$cen$e schemes that forces other company to switch OSes >
I'll focus on the first line and overlook the second as I don't understand what that really means. Primarily, Linux/PPC is particularly benefitial for Mac users with pre-PPCG4 processors especially when these systems are running Mac OS X. Linux/PPC is, as said earlier, faster than the Mac OS (this has to be qualified). With Linux, you can give new life into old Macs. You could turn them into a database server, a web server, a gateway/router, email server all for free. There are free products for the Mac OS that may match that, but the older Mac OSs do not provide the features that the Linux kernel does: preemptive multitasking, protected memory, etc. So it all boils down to what you intend to do with Linux on your Mac. If you primarily use the Mac as a desktop operating system, then you'd definitely have to compare the ease-of-use between the Mac OS and Linux+X11+whatever. It never hurts to try, though... ============================ Gino LV. Ledesma Campus Network Group Ateneo de Manila University http://cng.ateneo.net/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
