"Why do Gnome developers duplicate what KDE is doing?" "Why do KDE developers duplicate what Gnome is doing?" Its as if they expect the world to think the exact same way they do. the normal "this is not a troll" disclaimer.īut, I'm always amazed at the "why do people do." questions. What would compell someone to run Linux instead of MacOS X on such an elegant (and expensive) machine? Maybe I am just missing the point of the whole thing, and this is not a flame or a troll. We've learned that lesson - let's remember it. I'm not keen on it being replaced with another, even if it is Apple's product. The world is already paying the price for being dependent on one commercial operating system. I agree OSX is impressive, but I don't want to become dependent on it. And there are plenty of us who will accept nothing less. If I want crazy graphics, I can have the system in dual boot.īottom line, OSX is not completely free. Call me crazy (probably true) but I like the mimimalistic, efficient desktop blackbox represents. Some of us want more flexability, and more just plain cool cutting edge unstable cool features.Īnd finally, I want Blackbox instead of the OSX desktop. Apple sells desktops, and you can bet that's what they will be gearing their operating system for. A lot of us like to be able to find out, at least in principle, what is going on at all levels of our system.Īnother is the development focus of the linux teams - they will tend to have more cutting edge non-graphical stuff, like multiple journaling filesystems, before apple.
#Install linux on mac g4 code
One is merely the licensing issues - Darwin is more or less open, but the graphical code very definitely is not. If I can get a more recent version of the kernel, then I'll probably stop work on the OSX server. I think I need a more recent veriso of yaboot. I like the way they do startup scripts (instead of the linux rc.d) - takes a bit of getting used to but it seems clean.īy the way, anybody else have trouble getting recent 2.4 kernels to boot out of yaboot? I haven't got anything later than 2.4.10 running, I get the 'DEFAULT CATCH' open firmware error message. I'm setting up an OSX intranet server right now, and it's a bit of a chore, although I anticipate once everything's done it should be easy enough to administer. With OSX, you have to hunt around to hunt around for all the pieces, and they may not work 100% yet. Everything you need is either prepackaged as a rpm or deb or at least has an autoconf script that builds it flawlessly on any mainstream linux. Setting up a complete Linux based internet or intranet server is cake. It's the flip side of the question "Why not Linux on the Desktop"?