On 23/06/2011, at 9:01 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished. >> >> The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines >> but the Android and Apple computers. > > .. Apple - linux derivative?
I did ask on this list, but was not able to get any helpful answers ... After many months of DOA, usb-stops-working, every-thing-fine-except-myth-tuner-card motherboards I bit the bullet and bought an imac 27. Ran OSX for a couple of days, then booted and installed SuSE11.4 and Ubuntu10.10. (boot CD, install normally) Both worked immediately. Both throttled CPU to 1600/2200/2700 and at 1600 both run HOT. OSX runs luke warm. Audio is ultra-grot, apple make it quite reasonable Standard OSX comes with groff, ps2pdf et al, vim (color (sic) syntax) Used fink to install gnome-terminal, gnuplot) So ... vim, groff, audacity, vlc, gnome-terminal, gnuplot, their-mail, firefox, xsane to a (vbox) vm all work well quicktime midi has better instrument quality than timidity Real Mouse (microsoft optical) works without a hitch Keyboard is good for hunt-n-peck, but not as nice for touch typing. One can adapt to the strangeness (funny keys, funny ^X ^C and ^V) I did not tame EFI, used OSX to make bios settings that were kept mythtv is reasonable, but not as smooth as an 8000 or 9000 series nvidia Both SuSE and 10.10 work fine but the fglx ATI drivers put 'Unsupported Hardware" in a transparent message on the desktop I have not yet tamed itunes to do ogg (despite xiph), and have not yet been able to build amarok I've already benefited from apple's customer care, so 8/10 for the whole experience (vbox helps with the things I cannot live without) Hope somebody finds this dump helpfull James-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
