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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Swarup, Niyam > > Have been following you trials and tribulations so far and am happy that > something has worked > Am sure you have been asked this before. But am asking anyway - > > Why are you installing Ubuntu on a Mac ? > Am assuming you'll bought the very expensive machine for reasons other then > the hardware ! i work a great deal with sound and video. so far (in the last 14 years of using linux and foss) sound and video codecs and professional-grade apps are still buggy and a huge problem with linux and its distros. they don't cut it. plus, most of the PC off-the-shelf hardware available is crap, as in, suffers from electrical noise, or poor workmanship, or other bugs. in contrast, apple's hardware is geared for audio and video. with no noise or signal problems. no interferences. in fact, apple's hardware is a marvel of engineering. their OS is impressive in what it can do for audio and video. their integration with their apps, even home stuff such as garageband and iMove and iDVD, is legendary. so after struggling for a decade to get the same level of execution with non-apple hardware/software, i just gave up and moved *back* to apple, only for those. for all else, there is ubuntu. so to answer your question. i use ubuntu as my primary OS and for all my work. i even handle a lot of work through audacity, and various other linux-apps, but when i have specific features i want i boot into mac osx. so it's the other way around for me. > > And a question with a wink wink - are'nt you afraid that aple (no mistake > here) will come after you for violating some small light grey font print on > light grey paper on some thing saying you cannot install anyother os on your > mac - and that "all your base are belong to apple" oh yeah? show me the fine print. apple has no problems with my installing ubuntu on my hardware. they would have a problem if i did a hackintosh, or installed macosx on a non-apple hardware. > > Am not going into the sam has sung debate as yet but if sam's song was on > itunes he would not own it > see - > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197248/Bruce-Willis-fights-leave-iPod-tunes-family-Actor-considering-legal-action-Apple-battle-owns-songs-downloaded-iTunes.html that, is an urban myth. a great publicity stunt. > > looking forward to what you think, specially some peaceful insights from > Niyam :-) hehe. nothing peaceful here. just tech talk. regards niyam > > ram > > >[snip] -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
