Red Hat to support Apple's Intel Mac. But why?
According to Gillian Farquhar, Red Hat's representative, the company plans to include Apple's Intel based Macs to its list of supported platform for its distribution of LINUX. Read more at http://www.alllinuxcd.com
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Don't know whether it'll be easy but it's an attractive hardware platform because it is uniform ! You know exactly what you get.
But I wouldn't install Linux on a Mac. MacOSX is good enough not to have to bother with something like that. |
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There are many people out there who like mac hardware but not the OS, so I am sure there will be a lot of interest in Linux running on the new Macs.
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Linux on x86 has just reached that stage where it mostly works without having to take out the tool box for every little thing. As much as I like it, it still needs to progress in a few departments before I consider it worthwhile to buy a Mac and wipe out MacOSX. Now with an x86 core, I'd be most interested in hosting a full linux distro on one of the cores ! That'd be interesting....:D |
Red Hat knows perfectly well the potential advantage of getting there first.
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it can not be beat in its 3 areas of its specialization though. 1 audio editing 2 video editing 3 stand alone desktop/workstation for those things it is great, but other then that i prefer linux to any OS i have worked with. |
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completely with you on that. |
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So, in my own personal experience, Macs don't quite rule as hard as one might think in terms of video editing, when compared with Linux. |
Interesting indeed
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Ive used Mac my entire life, the first computer i had was the old black and white macintosh. Ive always used windows machines with school and work and what not, but always had a mac at home, even converted a few people over from the darkside.
Up untill last year, i had never owned a non mac. I now have two, for good reasons, the lap top i got free and run linux on it, the dell i got for 40 bucks so my GF can go to court reporting school online. When i head late last year that Macs were going to have Intel chips in them, I about shat my pants. But once i started thinking about it, and now that i have gotten more familiar with Winders and Linux, I think it might be pretty cool to have a machine that runs all three, it is possible isnt it? |
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should be from what i understand. now not 100% that windows will run on the new MACs with the intel chips, but it "should" |
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