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Old 07-07-2006, 08:21 AM   #1
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LXer: A great operating system is about details


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A couple of weeks ago I found time to install Dapper Drake, the latest Ubuntu Linux release. In the same week my wife bought a brand new MacBook. The inevitable comparison got me thinking about what makes an otherwise good operating system great.

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Old 07-07-2006, 08:58 AM   #2
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He's got a valid point, but he picked a lousy example: Ubuntu needs more attention to details because it doesn't make it easy to use unsupported hardware??

Try plugging that software modem into your Apple and see how well OS X copes with it!

Apple has the luxury of only having to support their own hardware. Naturally, everything works out of the box. If you want Linux to do the same, you'll have to do the legwork yourself to buy the supported hardware.
 
  


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