[Tfug] 2 weeks of Hackintosh fun..

[Bowie J. Poag]

Hi Shawn,

Well, we aren't exactly talking "HAY GUYS GO HERE AND DOWNLOAD THIS L33T 
ISO MAKE UR OWN HACKINTOSH DEHHHH"... OS X != Darwin. Darwin is a free, 
open-source, POSIX-compliant BSD hybrid. It's as Unix as anything 
else..perhaps stronger, since most of it's code was developed in-house 
and only opened later.  OS X is something which *can* run ontop of a 
Darwin kernel.  The kernel Apple uses for OS X is different (XNU, I think)

..And I certainly plead guilty to the murky legal implications of 
running a Hackintosh. The only thing "murky" is whether or not I choose 
to buy an OS X license from Apple or not.

Cheers,
Bowie




Shawn Nock wrote:
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> Jim Secan wrote:
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>> Windoze gets its share of mention in these discussions and it's certainly
>> not free.
>>     
>
> You've made a valid point about how MacOS : Windows :: Pepsi : Coke when
> the metric is Free Unix.
>
>   
>> The
>> fact that Bowie, I, and lots of other ex-Linuxers, are switching to OS X
>> for their desktop says a lot about Linux and it's failure to provide a
>> quality desktop interface.
>>     
>
> I simply do not buy this argument, despite it being often invoked.
> Having a preference for "fancy 3d desktop animations of a certain brand"
> is simply not the same thing as "failure to provide a quality desktop".
>
> There are many choices in the FOSS desktop environment. Most all of them
> are pretty and stable; all of them may be made better and modified to
> suit your needs.
>
> I do wish that people would separate preference from fact and stop
> blaming FOSS developers in an attempt to ameliorate their guilt about
> have said preference.
>
> You can like like MacOS without blaming FOSS. Heck, my mother loves
> MacOS; It helps her get her tasks done.
>
> To my mind, the thing that keeps Linux out of the 'mainstream' is the
> lack of proprietary application support. The most common argument that I
> hear is "I can't live without X", where X is a proprietary software
> package that doesn't yet have Linux support.
>
> Change is difficult and people are unlikely to jump headlong into it.
> MacOS is functionally identical to Windows (especially with respect to
> vendor support). A Windows person can boot MacOS for the first time and
> think "Why is the start menu shaped like that? Oh well, there's the MS
> Word logo next to Photoshop Icon".
>
> As for Linux users moving to MacOS, well... there's no accounting for
> taste, is there?
>
> Shawn
>
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