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Why Install Linux on Your Mac? (O'ReillyNet)
O'ReillyNet wonders why anybody would replace OS X with Linux.
"If you want some element of Linux -- access to certain tools and development environment capabilities, for example -- what you require is already built into Mac OS X.
But if you wish to go further, to take maximum control of your computer, and do so on some of the best quality hardware around, Linux makes a lot of sense on a Mac. It offers the kind of low-cost, easy-to-use, properly scalable system that Apple's commercial offering just can't match."
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My Mac Posted Dec 1, 2004 22:01 UTC (Wed) by jamienk (guest, #1144) [Link] I have a Mac with OS X which I need to work with Quark, Photoshop, etc files in a cooperative effort. My computer just died (FS corruption), so I'm having to reinstall everything. The weirdest, worse part? All the damn serial numbers that I forgot to keep track of! What a pain!
My Mac Posted Dec 2, 2004 9:24 UTC (Thu) by petegn (guest, #847) [Link] Oh dera sounds like M$ Corp all over again mind you MAC always have had a leaning towards the goatie side of life ..
My Mac Posted Dec 2, 2004 12:23 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] Do what I do. Use a CD pen to write the serial numbers on the CD itself.
That way, if I can find the CD I can still install the software...
Cheers,
Why Install Linux on Your Mac? (O'ReillyNet) Posted Dec 2, 2004 15:58 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] I'm tired of Mac OS X crashing, refusing to make TCP connections until rebooted, and so forth. Iwould love to install Ubuntu on this G4 laptop and then use Mac-on-Linux to re-install Mac OS X 10.3 on top of it. However, I don't want to spend a weekend or two and then risk that my laptop becomes unusable for some long time, so I'm chickening out for now.
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